What is causing a huge spike in earthquakes in Oklahoma?

Cliffy

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A dramatic uptick in earthquakes has been shaking central Oklahoma this year, continuing a recent trend of unusually high earthquake activity in the state and leading scientists to speculate about a possible link to oil and gas production there.
The US Geological Survey found that from 1975 to 2008, central Oklahoma experienced one to three 3.0-magnitude earthquakes a year, compared with an average of forty per year from 2009 to 2013. And it looks like that number is going to get bigger. It’s only February, and the state has already logged more than twenty-five quakes of 3.0-magnitude or larger this year, and more than 150 total quakes in the past week alone.

More:
What’s Causing the Huge Spike in Earthquakes in Oklahoma? | The Nation
 

spaminator

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so Oklahoma is getting hit with both earthquakes and tornadoes. :shock:
 

Blackleaf

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The Oklahoma earthquakes are caused by climate change, fracking in Blackpool, public school "toffs" and the Tories.

Or so the British Left would have you believe.
 

Walter

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Another "We're all gonna die and it's our fault and only lefty gubmints can help us" article. Yawn.
 

Blackleaf

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Another "We're all gonna die and it's our fault and only lefty gubmints can help us" article. Yawn.


It's the fault of UKIP, the Israelis, the Jews and white, heterosexual, Protestant men apparently.
 

El Barto

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Funny how Wally hates the current government with such blindness. The government agrees with the corporate findings on fracking.
 

taxslave

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Same basic story was trotted out a while ago about a town in Texas. Fracking is the culprit there too. If you believe the article.