Fracking is causing Oklahoma’s earthquake “swarm”

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By Tim McDonnellApr 7, 2015, 4:14 pm355 pts
This story is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Over the last few years, Oklahoma has experienced an insane uptick in earthquakes. As Mother Jones reported in 2013, the count exploded from just a couple per year back in the mid-2000s to over a thousand in 2010, growing alongside a boom…

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