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Fracking and Geothermal Boring can Cause Earthquake


 

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Several studies in the USA show that Fracking can cause earthquake. But also geothermal and gas boring as also the coalmining can occasionally lead to shockwave. The people who live in the northeast of US Federal State Ohio have never experienced an earthquake till March 2014. The earthquake researchers of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio have now confirmed the suspicion that the earthquake that once shook Ohio with an intensity of 3 in Richter scale caused by fracking.
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Several studies in the USA show that Fracking can cause earthquake. But also geothermal and gas boring as also the coalmining can occasionally lead to shockwave. The people who live in the northeast of US Federal State Ohio have never experienced an earthquake till March 2014. The earthquake researchers of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio have now confirmed the suspicion that the earthquake that once shook Ohio with an intensity of 3 in Richter scale caused by fracking.