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2 More Fracking-Related Earthquakes Hit Oklahoma Despite New Rules Meant to Prevent Them<\/a><\/h3>\n

Two earthquakes registering at a 4.5 and a 4.4 magnitude shook\u00a0frack-happy Oklahoma<\/a>\u00a0on Saturday, some of the strongest felt in the state this year. The stronger quake occurred just a few miles from the city of Cushing, which holds one of the largest crude oil storage facilities in the world.<\/p>\n

The recent quakes struck only a handful of weeks after the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC), the state\u2019s public utilities commission,\u00a0shut down several disposal wells<\/a>\u00a0around Cushing and issued new regulations meant to prevent more\u00a0earthquakes<\/a>\u00a0in the area, according to\u00a0Al Jazeera<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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This map shows earthquakes with 2.5+ magnitudes within a 400-mile radius of Oklahoma City. On Saturday, a 4.5 quake hit the city of Cushing, a major crude oil storage hub.\u00a0Photo credit: NewsOK<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A local report<\/a>\u00a0said that the stronger 4.5 magnitude quake occurred around 5 p.m. Saturday evening and could be felt in the nearby cities of Stillwater, Guthrie, Sapulpa, Oklahoma City and other parts of the metro. There were multiple aftershocks in Cushing, recorded at 3.0, 3.2, 3.1, 2.8, 2.7 and 2.5.<\/p>\n

Bob Noltensmeyer, Cushing Emergency Manager, told the\u00a0Associated Press<\/em><\/a>\u00a0he had not received reports of significant damage in the area although there were \u201cshattered nerves.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis one was pretty strong,\u201d he added. \u201cThe whole house shook.\u201d<\/p>\n

A 4.4 was also recorded on Saturday at 4:20 a.m. about 18 miles southwest of Medford and about 100 miles northwest of Cushing.<\/p>\n

America\u2019s heartland used to register earthquakes\u00a0from two a year to almost two a day<\/a>. This year, roughly 700 earthquakes of magnitude 3 or higher has shook the state, compared to 20 throughout 2009, as the\u00a0Associated Press<\/em><\/a>\u00a0pointed out.<\/p>\n

The Sooner State\u2019s seemingly never-ending earthquakes appear to be a man-made side effect of the country\u2019s drilling boom.\u00a0Scientists say<\/a>\u00a0that the injection of wastewater\u00a0byproducts into deep underground\u00a0disposal wells from\u00a0fracking<\/a>\u00a0operations are very likely triggering the major increase of seismic activity in Oklahoma, which is not near any major fault lines.<\/p>\n

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2 More Fracking-Related Earthquakes Hit Oklahoma Despite New Rules Meant to Prevent Them Two earthquakes registering at a 4.5 and a 4.4 magnitude shook\u00a0frack-happy Oklahoma\u00a0on Saturday, some of the strongest felt in the state this year. The stronger quake occurred just a few miles from the city of Cushing, which holds one of the largest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[22,4166,222,8375,331,412,2826],"class_list":["post-13400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-al-jazeera","tag-cushing","tag-earthquakes","tag-ecowatch","tag-fracking","tag-hydraulic-fracturing","tag-oklahoma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13401,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13400\/revisions\/13401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}