Shale Shocked: "Remarkable Increase" In U.S. Earthquakes "Almost Certainly Manmade"

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A U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) team has found that a sharp jump in earthquakes in America's heartland appears to be linked to oil and natural gas drilling operations.
As hydraulic fracturing has exploded onto the scene, it has increasingly been connected to earthquakes. Some quakes may be caused by the original fracking — that is, by injecting a fluid mixture into the earth to release natural gas (or oil). More appear to be caused by reinjecting the resulting brine deep underground.
Last August, a USGS report examined a cluster of earthquakes in Oklahoma and reported:
Our analysis showed that shortly after hydraulic fracturing began small earthquakes started occurring, and more than 50 were identified, of which 43 were large enough to be located. Most of these earthquakes occurred within a 24 hour period after hydraulic fracturing operations had ceased.​
In November, a British shale gas developer found it was "highly probable" its fracturing operations caused minor quakes.
Then last month, Ohio oil and gas regulators said "A dozen earthquakes in northeastern Ohio were almost certainly induced by injection of gas-drilling wastewater into the earth."


http://truth-out.org/news/item/8396...se-in-us-earthquakes-almost-certainly-manmade

drill baby drill!!!
 
this is what happens when you don't respect the Planet
 
Do the quakes cause damage to structures and who pays if they do? Perhaps that is not much of a problem because the density of built structures is not that great in those parts of the country.

A bigger issue is that all of that waste water used to be good water and once it is polluted and pumped underground it is essentially gone - removed from the hydrological cycle and unavailable for any other use.
 
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