Sentences with phrase «active wastewater disposal»

The Pawnee earthquake occurred in a region with active wastewater disposal wells, and is potentially the largest such induced earthquake to have occurred in Oklahoma so far, write University of Oklahoma seismologists Xiaowei Chen and Norimitsu Nakata in their preface to the section.

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Three of the nine earthquakes occurred near active injection wells, suggesting a connection to the disposal of wastewater.

The more oil companies frack and drill, the more wastewater they inject into disposal wells near active faults, which can trigger damaging earthquakes.

According to the newspaper Tulsa World, Oklahoma boasts — if that's even the right word — some 3,200 active disposal wells that pumped a combined 1.1 billion barrels of wastewater into the ground in 2013, an increase of about 35 percent over 2010.