Earthquakes blamed on wastewater injection
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 - 12:31
in Earth & Climate
By Becky OskinLiveScienceAn ongoing earthquake swarm in New Mexico and Colorado, which includes Colorado's largest earthquake since 1967, is due to underground wastewater injection, researchers said Friday at the Seismological Society of America's annual meeting in Salt Lake City.The earthquakes are concentrated near wastewater injection wells in the Raton Basin, where mining companies are extract...