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Is fracking causing small earthquakes?

2015-02-14 23:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: Small earthquakes shaking Oklahoma and southern Kansas daily and linked to energy drilling dramatically are increasing the chance of bigger and dangerous quakes, federal research indicates. This once-stable region now is just as likely to see serious damaging and potentially harmful earthquakes as the highest risk places east of the Rockies such as New Madrid, Missouri, and Charleston, South Carolina, which had major quakes in the last two centuries. Still, its a low risk, about a 1 in 2,500...

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New regional organization launched to prepare Portland-Vancouver area for earthquakes, other disasters

2015-02-10 21:30:52| PortlandOnline

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New regional organization launched to prepare Portland-Vancouver area for earthquakes, other disasters

2015-02-10 21:05:19| PortlandOnline

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New regional organization launched to prepare Portland-Vancouver area for earthquakes, other disasters

2015-02-10 16:24:19| PortlandOnline

Media advisory issued February 10, 2015.

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Earthquakes Rattling Glaciers, Boosting Sea Level Rise

2015-01-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Glacier Hub: Talk of earthquakes likely calls to mind giant fissures opening up along the earths crust, the trembling of rock, buildings crumbling to their knees and, depending on your age and cast of mind, the love of Superman for Lois Lane. But it does not likely conjure up images of giant tongues of sliding ice or the splash of calving icebergs. And yet it should. Most earthquakes are generated by the friction produced by two bodies of rock rapidly sliding past each other on a fault in the Earths crust,...

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