Friday, July 12, 2013

Confirmed: Fracking Triggers Quakes and Seismic Chaos

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Major earthquakes thousands of miles away can trigger reflex quakes, sometimes followed months later by quakes big enough to destroy buildings, in areas where fluids have been injected into the ground from fracking and other industrial operations, according to a study published in the journal Science on Thursday.

"[The fluids] kind of act as a pressurized cushion," lead author Nicholas van der Elst of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University explained to Mother Jones. "They make it easier for the fault to slide."

Confirmed: Fracking Triggers Quakes and Seismic Chaos

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