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More oil and gas drilling, more quakes
2013-07-13 09:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
San Francisco Chronicle: The last three years have seen an explosion in oil and gas drilling in the central and eastern United States. They`ve also seen a steep increase in the number of earthquakes rattling rattling those parts of the country. And that`s probably not a coincidence, according to a new report in the journal Science. In November, 2011, a series of earthquakes that some researchers link to water disposal wells from oil field operations damaged homes in Oklahoma. The report from a U.S. Geological Survey...
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