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Related: About this forumOklahoma orders cut in water injection after earthquakes
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission has directed a wastewater disposal well to reduce its volume of injection after more than a dozen earthquakes rattled part of northwest Oklahoma since Friday.
The U.S. Geological Survey recorded three quakes Monday, including one near Covington now rated magnitude 4.5 after a preliminary rating of 4.3. Magnitude 3.3 and 2.8 quakes were also recorded Monday in the area about 55 miles (90 kilometers) north of Oklahoma City.
Garfield County Emergency Management Director Mike Honigsberg says there are no reports of injury or severe damage. Damage typically begins with magnitude 4.0 or stronger earthquakes, but Honigsberg notes that the area is very rural.
Many of the thousands of earthquakes in Oklahoma in recent years have been linked to wastewater injection by oil and natural gas producers.
Short article, no more at link: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/earthquakes-strike-area-northwestern-oklahoma-54334479
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)It's all Liberal/Scientist/AlGore/Clinton/Soros/Globalist/Deep State/Mainstream Media LIES!!! Excuses for the Lesbian UN Blue Helmet Black Helicopter Agenda 21 Stormtroopers to come and take our Guns and put all the Good Christians into the FEMA Camps, and establish a Communist Gay Abortionist Muslim Caliphate (also Sharia and Benghazi and Hillary's Emails and Uranium One and Fast And Furious)!!!
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Midnight Writer
(21,768 posts)I reckon a 4.5 earthquake caught the attention of the pious.