New study ties quakes to injection wells

Researchers at Cornell University have found new links between wastewater injection wells and a spike in earthquakes in Oklahoma, a state that is seeing more than twice as many significant seismic events per year than California.

Damages: rubble from a home after a 5.6-magnitude earthquake in Oklahoma in 2011
Damages: rubble from a home after a 5.6-magnitude earthquake in Oklahoma in 2011
Published 7 July 2014, 17:49Updated 11 October 2016, 16:21