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Record-tying magnitude 5.6 quake in Oklahoma oil country rattles Midwest

2016-09-04 05:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

LA Times: Oklahoma regulators ordered more than three dozen oil and gas wastewater disposal wells to shut down after a magnitude 5.6 earthquake - matching the strongest ever to hit Oklahoma - struck Saturday morning and reverberated across the Great Plains, rattling even far-off Iowa. People took to social media to report feeling the quake not just in Iowa but Missouri, Kansas, Texas, Arkansas and Nebraska. Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin declared a state of emergency in Pawnee County, epicenter of the quake....

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