Earthquake Forecast (image)

Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences

Caption

This image shows widely-felt earthquakes that struck north-central Oklahoma and southern Kansas and the probability that those areas will experience potentially damaging induced earthquakes in 2018 and 2020. Manmade earthquakes in this region are caused by deep injection of wastewater from oil and gas operations.

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Image credit: Cornelius Langenbruch

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