By Zoë Corbyn of Nature magazine

Small earthquakes are a recognized risk of hydraulic fracturing , or "fracking," a procedure in which companies unlock energy reserves by pumping millions of liters of water underground to fracture shale rock and release the natural gas trapped inside. [More]



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Source: Size of Gas-Fracking Quakes Can Be Predicted



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