SAN JOSE, Calif. — Small earthquakes shaking Oklahoma and southern Kansas daily and linked to energy drilling are dramatically increasing the chance of bigger and dangerous quakes, federal research indicates.
This once-stable region is now just as likely to see serious damaging and potentially harmful earthquakes as the highest-risk places east of the Rockies, such as New Madrid in Missouri, and Charleston in South Carolina, which had major quakes in the past two centuries.
Still it's a low risk, about a 1 in 2,500 years' chance of happening, according to geophysicist William Ellsworth of the U.S. Geological Survey.
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6 comments:
Fracking has NEVER caused an earthquake or any other kind of damage. It's another BS hoax like Global warming / Climate change, It's all about taxation and control.
Did you notice that the sky is getting lower and lower every day, Eeyore?
More made up baloney by the socialists/environmentalists. Morons
Actually if you talk to people that live there, their opinion is different from yours. Fracking is the issue. Educate yourself. You have no proof, they do.
Fracking goes down maybe 5000 feet. The earthquakes are 10 MILES down.
7:33 Educate yourself!
8:08
Yea the earthquakes WERE 10 miles down. Now they are more frequent and closer to the surface. Great explanation there man.
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