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Posted Tue Dec 4 2012: from E&E Publishing:
Scientists link Colo., Okla. temblors to drilling activities http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1354644918
Scientists are saying with increased certainty that two damaging earthquakes in 2011 -- one in Colorado, the other in Oklahoma -- were triggered by oil and gas production activities. Studies by seismologists from the U.S. Geological Survey, the University of Oklahoma and Columbia University have found the quakes were caused by the deep underground injection of drilling waste.
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