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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (175427)11/6/2011 10:05:43 AM
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What the frack?

Oklahoma's largest quake buckles highway; 1 injured

By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 9:37 AM EST, Sun November 6, 2011

CNN) -- Crews in central Oklahoma were out early Sunday morning assessing for damage from the largest quake to hit the state since record-keeping began. The 5.6-magnitude quake struck 4 miles east of Sparks in Lincoln County at 11:53 p.m. ET Saturday.

No major injuries were reported, but the quake caused at least three sections of U.S. Route 62 to buckle, said Aaron Bennett of the Lincoln County 911 and emergency management.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/06/us/oklahoma-earthquake/?hpt=us_c2

Shale Shocked: “Highly Probable” Fracking Caused U.K. Earthquakes, and It’s Linked to Oklahoma Temblors By Joe Romm on Nov 2, 2011 at 7:29 pm

A previously unreported study out of the Oklahoma Geological Survey has found that hydraulic fracturing may have triggered a swarm of small earthquakes earlier this year in Oklahoma. The quakes, which struck on Jan. 18 in a rural area near Elmore City, peaked at magnitude 2.8 and caused no deaths or property damage.

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