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Fracking Earthquakes … Fracking Causes Earthquakes

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This map shows the intensity of shaking in the area of a magnitude-3.9 earthquake that struck near Youngstown, Ohio, on Dec. 31, 2011. Research has linked this earthquake to the underground injection of wastewater from fracking. Courtesy USGS

As reported on Live Science, here, and NBC News, here, disposal of wastewater from Hydraulic Fracturing, “Fracking,” has been linked to earthquakes in Ohio. As reported in Green, a the NY Times blog, here, fracking has also been linked to increased seismic activity in Oklahoma, altho scientists are uncertain whether the earthquakes are because of the injection of wastewater underground or the extraction of oil and methane via fracking.

This makes perfect sense. Fracking is, after all, injecting explosives under tremendous pressure into underground rock formations, then exploding the rock formations. To expect that not to have other effects – such as earthquakes – would be naive.

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Tens of thousands flee southern Chile's coast after magnitude 7.1 earthquake | World news | The Guardian

The Associated Press, via The Guardian:

Tens of thousands flee southern Chile’s coast after magnitude 7.1 earthquakeNo immediate reports of deaths as people flee for higher ground in fear of tsunami similar to one that ravaged coastline last year o o Share91 o Reddit o Buzz up Associated Press in Santiago The Guardian, Monday 3 January 2011 Article historyA magnitude 7.1 earthquake shook southern Chile yesterday, sending thousands fleeing for higher ground in fear of a tsunami like that which ravaged the coastline last year. There were no immediate reports of deaths or damage, and Vicente Nunez, head of the National Emergency Office, said no tsunami alert was issued.The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii also said no destructive Pacific Ocean-wide tsunami was expected.Some mobile phone aerials and electrical power were knocked out in the Araucania region where the quake was centred, 370 miles 595km south-southwest of the capital, Santiago.

via Tens of thousands flee southern Chile’s coast after magnitude 7.1 earthquake | World news | The Guardian.