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Report: Oklahoma's Most Powerful Earthquake Cause Determined
2014-03-09 08:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Weather Channel: One of Oklahoma's biggest man-made earthquakes, caused by fracking-linked wastewater injection, triggered an earthquake cascade that led to the damaging magnitude-5.7 Prague quake that struck on Nov. 6, 2011, a new study confirms. The findings suggest that even small man-made earthquakes, such as those of just a magnitude 1 or magnitude 2, can trigger damaging quakes, said study co-author Elizabeth Cochran, a seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. "Even if wastewater injection only directly...
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