{"id":4078,"date":"2012-04-12T18:37:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T02:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=4078"},"modified":"2012-04-12T18:37:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T02:37:04","slug":"from-bloomberg-fracking-tied-to-unusual-rise-in-earthquakes-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/12\/from-bloomberg-fracking-tied-to-unusual-rise-in-earthquakes-in-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"(from Bloomberg)  Fracking Tied to Unusual Rise in Earthquakes in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A spate of earthquakes across the middle of the U.S. is \u201calmost certainly\u201d man-made, and may be caused by wastewater from oil or gas drilling injected into the ground, U.S. government scientists said in a study.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Open Web Site\" href=\"http:\/\/www2.seismosoc.org\/\" rel=\"external\">Researchers<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.bloomberg.com\/u.s.-geological-survey\/\">U.S. Geological Survey<\/a> said that for the three decades until 2000, seismic events in the nation\u2019s midsection averaged 21 a year. They jumped to 50 in 2009, 87 in 2010 and 134 in 2011.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read the entire story, click on the top photo:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-04-12\/earthquake-outbreak-in-central-u-s-tied-to-drilling-wastewater.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4079\" title=\"ibC2kPRD1Aik\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ibC2kPRD1Aik.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ibC2kPRD1Aik.jpg 628w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ibC2kPRD1Aik-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/12\/from-bloomberg-fracking-tied-to-unusual-rise-in-earthquakes-in-u-s\/irpblsuhicqk\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4081\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4081\" title=\"iRpblSuHiCqk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/iRpblSuHiCqk-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/iRpblSuHiCqk-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/iRpblSuHiCqk.jpg 628w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>To peruse all the ZBlog posts, click on &#8220;The Zephyr&#8221; at the top of the page.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A spate of earthquakes across the middle of the U.S. is \u201calmost certainly\u201d man-made, and may be caused by wastewater from oil or gas drilling injected into the ground, U.S. government scientists said in a study. Researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey said that for the three decades until 2000, seismic events in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4078"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4085,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078\/revisions\/4085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}