Image via the Atlantic.
This just in from the Atlantic: “A new United States Geological Survey study has found that middle America between Alabama and Montana is experiencing an ‘unprecedented’ and ‘almost certainly manmade’ increase in earthquakes of 3.0 magnitude or greater.”
This dramatic increase in ’quakes coincides with increased oil and gas extraction in parts of the area. The Environmental Working Group has concluded that fracking has caused these earthquakes in one way or another. But, on the other hand, the USGS scientists aren’t ready to infer there is a connection between the two.
