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Oklahoma aims to find ways to reduce induced earthquakes
2016-01-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
United Press International: Mary Fallin, governor of emerging shale state Oklahoma, said she set aside more than $1 million in emergency funds to support earthquake research. Fallin approved $1.38 million in one-time costs to support earthquake research to be directed by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission and the Oklahoma Geological Survey. "I'm committed to funding seismic research, bringing on line advanced technology and more staff to fully support our regulators at they take meaningful action on earthquakes," she...
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Oklahoma approves $1.4m funding for research on earthquakes linked to wastewater disposal wells
2016-01-29 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
Oklahoma has approved the use of nearly $1.4m from the state emergency fund to carry out research on earthquakes that are believed to be linked to wastewater disposal wells serving oil and gas operations.
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'A millenniums worth of earthquakes': What are states going to do?
2016-01-10 15:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
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...
Fracking shakes American west: a millenniums worth of earthquakes
2016-01-10 14:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Increasingly tied to tremors shaking the west, fracking for natural gas is creating alarm and division around western states that until recently enjoyed a boom in jobs and revenue. In Oklahoma, seismologists have warned that significant temblors last week could signal a larger, more dangerous earthquake to come in a state where drilling is destabilizing the bedrock. Last Wednesday night two earthquakes, measuring 4.7 and 4.8 on the Richter scale, struck rural northern Oklahoma, beneath a major...
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All is not OK: Oklahoma records 70 earthquakes in a week
2016-01-08 20:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The state experienced two of its largest earthquakes on record this week, measuring 4.7 and 4.8 on the Richter scale. And, the New York Times reports, this could be a harbinger of things to come. Big things. From the Times: The two quakes followed a series of smaller ones last week that peeled brick facades, toppled columns and caused a power failure in Edmond, an upscale Oklahoma City suburb. Some experts said those quakes hinted at the possibility of a larger shock. I do think theres a...
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