How one US state went from two quakes a year to 585 | Ecologie & société | Scoop.it

"The central US state of Oklahoma has gone from registering two earthquakes a year to nearly two a day and scientists point to a controversial culprit: wastewater injection wells used in fracking.

Located in the middle of the country, far from any major fault lines, Oklahoma experienced 585 earthquakes of a magnitude of 3.0 or greater in 2014. That's more than three times as many as the 180 which hit California last year..."

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-09-state-quakes-year.html#jCp