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Being poked, prodded and injected with acrid chemicals has got to be quite the rattling experience.
At least that’s how Mother Earth seems to perceive it.
After putting up with environmental abuse for all these years, she is now fighting back. Rattle her cage, and she just might rattle yours.
Becky Oskin of Live
Science reports that hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) has been triggering “earthquakes on a hidden fault in ancient crystalline rock beneath a natural gas well in the Utica Shale.”
Since earthquakes had never before been “recorded in this region of Ohio before fracking started,” and since the “shaking stopped after the well was shut down,” it is highly likely that the earthquakes were a direct result of the fracking.
Seismologists from Ohio’s Miami University “identified 77 earthquakes” (magnitudes 1 through 3) during eight days in March 2014.
Never fear, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources has promised to “stop drilling and evaluate a site if quakes occur.”
That is, if it’s not too late by then…
Resources
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fracking-led-to-ohio-earthquakes/ar-BBhyvEJ
Copyright January 9, 2015 by Linda Van Slyke All Rights Reserved
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