Satellites help link Texas earthquakes to wastewater injection

Monday, September 26, 2016 - 09:02 in Earth & Climate

A 4.8 magnitude earthquake that rattled residents and damaged buildings in East Texas in 2012 was triggered by the injection of large volumes of wastewater from oil and gas activities into rocks deep beneath the surface, a new satellite study by Stanford scientists and others confirms. Geophysicists have long suspected that the 2012 temblor, which […]

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