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Scientists See Quake Risk Increasing in Oklahoma

2014-05-07 06:36:46| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: A sharp rise in the number of earthquakes in Oklahoma, apparently related to underground disposal of wastewater from oil and gas production, has significantly increased the chances that a damaging quake will occur there, federal and state scientists say. Already this year there have been 145 small earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or higher in the state, compared with 109 for all of 2013, the scientists with the United States Geological Survey and the Oklahoma Geological Survey said in a statement Monday....

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