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dballance

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2. fracking may be involved

Reply to Jesus Malverde (Original post)

Sun Dec 8, 2013, 01:34 PM

Dec 2013

As part of his wide-ranging research, Holland is proposing to inject pressurized water into porous rock in an area already known to be earthquake-prone, to see whether injections of oil industry wastewater are contributing to a "swarm" of earthquakes rocking the state.

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE9AI12W20131119?irpc=932

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