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Oklahoma endures endless earthquakes despite drilling dip and tough new rules
Publication date: 26 June 2017
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Wastewater injection wells used to produce oil and gas will likely continue causing earthquakes in the central-west US state of Oklahoma, despite tighter regulations and a slowdown in drilling causing the frequency of tremors to dip.
Oklahoma, an epicentre for seismicity linked to US oil drilling, has witnessed a sharp decline in quakes in recent years, but dozens have already occurred in 2017.
Two were registered in the past fortnight in or around ...