Geologists say that they have confirmed what many have suspected for years: a swarm of earthquakes that rattled central Oklahoma was the direct result of fracking and wastewater injection.
The study by a team of geologists from Cornell University, the University of Colorado, Columbia University and the United States Geological Survey released last week makes a direct link between high-pressure wastewater injection at four hydraulic fracturing sites southeast of Oklahoma City to a swarm of 2,547 small earthquakes near the small town of Jones.
According to the study, fracking and wastewater injection is responsible for a 22,900 percent increase in magnitude 3.0 or higher earthquakes in the state since 2008. Prior to that, Oklahoma typically saw, on average, one magnitude 3.0 earthquake per year.
Click here for a pre-and-post 2009 map of earthquakes in Oklahoma from the USGS (Note: PDF)
“It really is unprecedented to have this many earthquakes over a broad region like this,” says study co-author Geoffrey Abers of Cornell University. “Most big sequences of earthquakes that we see are either a main shock and a lot of aftershocks or it might be right at the middle of a volcano in a volcanic system or geothermal system. So you might see little swarms but nothing really this distributed and this persistent.”
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