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Thursday, June 21, 2012

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Does Energy-Related Drilling Trigger Earthquakes? (The Energy Collective)

Last week the National Research Council published a comprehensive study of the seismic hazards and risks of a variety of energy-related drilling activities. Despite widely publicized reports of drilling-related quakes in Ohio and Arkansas, the report concluded that such events are very rare, compared to both the total number of wells drilled and to naturally occurring earthquakes.

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