Monitor: A spike in seismic activity over seven years, a flurry of reports, and then last week, more earthquakes.
Last Wednesday night, in an area where drilling for oil and gas occurs, a community in northwestern Oklahoma was hit with two quakes that registered 4.7 and 4.8 on the Richter scale, and 22 more tremors were logged throughout the area over a 13-hour period.
The panhandle state experienced 585 quakes in 2014. In 2015 there were 842, according to data from the National Earthquake Information...