Learning How to NOT Make Your Own Earthquakes

摘要

First off, fracking for shale gas is not touching off the earthquakes that have been shaking previously calm regions from New Mexico to Texas, Ohio, and Arkansas. But all manner of other energy-related fluid injection-including deep disposal of tracking's wastewater, extraction of methane from coal beds, and creation of geothermal energy reservoirs-is in fact setting off disturbingly strong earthquakes. These quakes of magnitude 4 and 5 are rattling the local populace, shutting down clean energy projects, and prompting a flurry of new regulations.