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- This is the first USGS hazard report to factor in manmade earthquakes.
- The oil and gas industry is considered the primary cause of such quakes.
- Seven million Americans risk facing one in 2016.
Millions of Americans live in areas that could be affected by manmade earthquakes in the next year, according a new assessment from the U.S. Geological Survey.
The oil and gas industry’s wastewater disposal methods are putting about 7 million people at risk, the federal agency announced Monday in an earthquake hazard report. It’s common for companies to dispose of a drilling byproduct called wastewater by injecting it underground. This practice puts additional pressure on faults in the ground and drives them apart, scientists have observed.
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The Washington Post via Getty Images Gary Landra stands on a crack across his basement floor that he says was caused by an earthquake in Prague…
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