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How one US state went from two quakes a year to 585

Accepted submission by exec at 2015-09-21 06:21:54
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"exec" writes:

The central US state of Oklahoma has gone from registering two earthquakes a year to nearly two a day and scientists point to a controversial culprit: wastewater injection wells used in fracking.

http://phys.org/news/2015-09-state-quakes-year.html [phys.org]

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