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Texas Legislature Starts Talking 'Frackquakes' While Oklahomans Get Quake Insurance

2014-05-14 17:35:40| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

On Monday, lawmakers in Texas, for the first time, formally addressed the recent rash of earthquakes that rocked northern Texas this winter.

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Quake warning adds new worries to tornado-prone Oklahoma

2014-05-08 19:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: A warning from U.S. scientists that Oklahoma may be hit by a major earthquake has caused a run on insurance policies for tremors in the heartland state, adding to the woes of residents already in the firing line of devastating tornadoes. Quakes have typically been infrequent in Oklahoma, yet not unheard of. But in the past year, minor tremors have hit the state hundreds of times, raising worries the big one may be just around the corner. "The rate of earthquakes in Oklahoma has increased by...

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Scientists See Quake Risk Increasing in Oklahoma

2014-05-07 06:36:46| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: A sharp rise in the number of earthquakes in Oklahoma, apparently related to underground disposal of wastewater from oil and gas production, has significantly increased the chances that a damaging quake will occur there, federal and state scientists say. Already this year there have been 145 small earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or higher in the state, compared with 109 for all of 2013, the scientists with the United States Geological Survey and the Oklahoma Geological Survey said in a statement Monday....

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Scientists Warn Quake Risk From Fracking Operations

2014-05-02 09:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Geographic: Underground disposal of wastewater from fracking may pose a much greater risk of causing dangerous earthquakes than previously believed, particularly in areas of the U.S. Southwest and Midwest where earthquake faults have not been mapped extensively, seismology researchers said at a conference Thursday. Worse yet, scientists are not yet able to predict which wastewater injection sites are likely to pose risks to buildings or critical structures such as power plants, and do not yet know what operators...

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