Fracking wastewater disposal is triggering more earthquakes, study finds

‘The number of earthquakes taking place in the United States is on the rise, and humans are causing at least some of them by drilling for shale gas and oil and, more likely, by using deep injection wells to dispose of drilling fluid.

That’s the word from the U.S. Geological Survey, which put out a report this month after studying the increase in seismic activity in Ohio and other states were shale drilling is taking place.

“The central United States has undergone a dramatic increase in seismicity over the past six years,” the USGS found.’

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