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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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Record Number Of Oklahoma Tremors Raises Possibility Of Damaging Earthquakes

2014-05-06 09:59:23| oilandgasonline News Articles

The rate of earthquakes in Oklahoma has increased by about 50 percent since October 2013, significantly increasing the chance for a damaging quake in central Oklahoma.

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USGS Issues Rare Earthquake Advisory for Central Oklahoma

2014-05-05 23:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ABC: For the first time ever, on Monday the United States Geological Survey issued an earthquake advisory for a state east of the Rocky Mountains, Oklahoma. The USGS said on Monday that the risk of an earthquake of magnitude greater than 5.0 has noticeably increased in central Oklahoma. Robert Williams, a geophysicist with the USGS, said that the agency can't predict when or where the state's next earthquake might take place. "This is an advisory based on the increase in earthquake rate over the last...

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Waste Management making diesel, wax from landfill gas in Oklahoma

2014-05-03 10:02:17| Waste Management - Topix.net

Waste Management Inc. has built facilities to produce diesel and wax from gas captured at a landfill that recently was removed from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund list.

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