Frack-buckled crust can be seen from space

• Autores: Andy Coghlan
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3093, 2016, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Fracking has lifted Earth's surface--a movement that hints at where best to drill to avoid quakes induced by the activity. The slight buckling--just 3 millimeters a year--was spotted In satellite data near the location of the biggest quake ever recorded in eastern Texas: the magnitude 4.8 Timpson earthquake in 2012. This has been widely blamed on waste water being injected at high pressure into deep-lying rocks at fracking sites close to the eponymous town.