Fracking Wastewater Disposal Seen Linked to Earthquakes
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Disposing of wastewater from hydraulic fracturing may make fault zones more prone to earthquakes, according to researchers from Columbia University and the University of Oklahoma.
The researchers found a “profound” increase in the number of earthquakes at three sites where fluids from energy production were injected into the ground, said Nicholas van der Elst, a scientist at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, and lead author of an article published today in the journal Science.