During recent years citizens of Oklahoma have been feeling earthquakes. Earthquakes in Oklahoma and Kansas have been on the rise, due to water waste injections a product by the oil and gas operations. A new model developed by Stanford University researchers incorporates earthquake physics and the Earth’s hydrogeologic response to wastewater injection to forecast a decrease in man-made earthquakes in Oklahoma and Kansas through 2020.
For more info, please read the original article by Phys.org:
https://phys.org/news/2018-09-susceptibility-man-made-earthquakes.html#jCp
