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'Houses are bouncing;' quakes trigger controls on Oklahoma oil industry

2014-08-09 13:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Inside the small U-Haul rental office in Guthrie, Oklahoma, Tami Boxley routinely deals with something that once was rare: the rattling, booming roll of the earth. In the last week alone, residents of Guthrie, pop. 10,191, have felt five quakes rock the town a half hour's drive from Oklahoma City. The most recent rippled through Friday after lunchtime, duly recorded on the "QuakeWatch" application many residents have loaded onto their smartphones. The local newspaper runs a weekly column updating...

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Billion-dollar debate in Oklahoma divorce: Was oil...

2014-08-03 23:46:35| Electronics - Topix.net

For years, Continental Resources, the largest oil driller in the booming Bakken Shale formation, touted the hard work of its CEO and founder, Oklahoma billionaire Harold Hamm, as "a driving force" behind the company's success.

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