Did the oil industry help to discover a whole new fault line in Oklahoma?

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By Emma Foehringer MerchantSep 13, 2016, 1:48 pm156 pts
Sure looks like it. A 5.8 magnitude earthquake — the largest in state history — hit near Pawnee, Oklahoma, on Sept. 3. That’s an area where oil and gas companies have been injecting wastewater underground. In recent years, such wastewater disposal has been shown to induce earthquakes in central U.S.…

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