Sentences with phrase «recent small earthquakes»

Moreover, scientists suspect that the injection of used fracking fluid into deep disposal wells may have triggered dozens of recent small earthquakes in northeastern Ohio and north Texas.

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And a recent joint report by the UK's Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering concluded that most of the known instances of groundwater contamination, such as in Pavillion, Wyoming, and the cases of fracking - related earthquakes in Texas were due to poor practice, and that the risk of accidents is small if fracking is properly managed.

Yet the recent north Texas earthquakes were so small they caused offsets of just a fraction of a centimeter.

The mathematical expression of the law at the seismic moment, proposed by Serra and Corral, meets all the conditions needed to determine both the probability of smaller earthquakes and of large ones, by adjusting itself to the most recent and extreme cases of Tohoku, in Japan (2011) and Sumatra, in Indonesia (2004); as well as to determine negligible probabilities for earthquakes of disproportionate magnitudes.

For his first exhibition at White Cube in 2009, Zhang Huan created an installation and series of paintings based on a renowned survivor of the recent earthquake in the Sichuan Province of China, a pig that lived, trapped, for 49 days after the quake, surviving on rainwater, rotten wood and a small amount of foraged feed.

In recent years there has been an increase in smaller earthquakes at Mt. Fuji which could indicate the movement of magma underground inside the volcanic system.