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As for Keranen’s explosive research on the Wilzetta Fault, New Dominion’s Antonides is recruiting his own scientists to produce a report challenging it. Meanwhile, he has his own theories.
One of Oklahoma's biggest man-made earthquakes, caused by fracking-linked wastewater injection, triggered an earthquake cascade that led to the damaging magnitude-5.7 Prague quake that struck on ...
The aftershocks have mostly stopped, but we haven't forgotten the big 5.6 earthquake that shook the state last month. Now it seems we'll be learning more about why it happened and if we ...
Many of those quakes occurred on average 3 miles underground along the Nemaha and Wilzetta fault zones, broad cracks in the Earth's crust in central Oklahoma that were originally formed 300 ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Aftershocks continue to rattle Oklahoma on Sunday morning after a ...
On Nov. 5, 2011, as midnight approached, a magnitude-5.6 earthquake rocked central Oklahoma, the state's most powerful quake ever recorded. The shaking injured two people, destroyed 14 homes, and ...
SPARKS, Okla. (AP) — Clouds of dust belched from the corners of almost every room in Joe Reneau’s house as the biggest earthquake in Oklahoma history rocked the two-story building.
And in fact, this “Wilzetta Fault” was only 200 meters away from the active injection wells. If the geologists (a team led by Katie M. Keranen and Elizabeth S. Cochran) ...
In Oklahoma, some of the fracking wastewater has been going into the 320-million-year-old Wilzetta Fault. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, ...
A new study is the latest to tie a string of unusual earthquakes, in this case, in central Oklahoma, to injection of wastewater underground. Researchers now say that the magnitude 5.7 earthquake ...
The 2011 quakes struck along the Wilzetta fault, a fault zone near Prague. One of Oklahoma's biggest man-made earthquakes, caused by fracking-linked wastewater injection, ...