Christian Science Monitor: Researchers with the US Geological Survey are developing an estimate of earthquake hazards that for the first time includes hazards posed from earthquakes triggered or suspected to have been triggered by waste-water disposal wells used by the oil and gas industries.
The effort stems from two earthquakes in 2011 that topped magnitude 5 and were suspected to have been triggered by waste-water injection one in southern Colorado, at magnitude 5.3, and another in Oklahoma, at magnitude 5.7. The Oklahoma...