Not
long after two mild earthquakes jolted the normally steady terrain
outside Youngstown, Ohio, last March, geologists quickly decided that
hydraulic fracturing operations at new oil-and-gas wells in the area had
set off the tremors.
Now
a detailed study has concluded that the earthquakes were not isolated
events, but merely the largest of scores of quakes that rattled the area
around the wells for more than a week.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/08/us/new-research-links-scores-of-earthquakes-to-fracking-wells-near-a-fault-in-ohio.html?ref=todayspaper
long after two mild earthquakes jolted the normally steady terrain
outside Youngstown, Ohio, last March, geologists quickly decided that
hydraulic fracturing operations at new oil-and-gas wells in the area had
set off the tremors.
Now
a detailed study has concluded that the earthquakes were not isolated
events, but merely the largest of scores of quakes that rattled the area
around the wells for more than a week.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/08/us/new-research-links-scores-of-earthquakes-to-fracking-wells-near-a-fault-in-ohio.html?ref=todayspaper
