{"id":19634,"date":"2015-02-24T14:04:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T19:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=19634"},"modified":"2015-02-24T14:04:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T19:04:24","slug":"u-s-geological-survey-fracking-waste-is-the-primary-cause-of-the-dramatic-rise-in-earthquakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/02\/24\/u-s-geological-survey-fracking-waste-is-the-primary-cause-of-the-dramatic-rise-in-earthquakes\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Geological Survey: Fracking waste is the primary cause of the dramatic rise in earthquakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Daily Kos<\/em> has the article <a title=\"The Daily Kos article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/02\/23\/1366282\/-U-S-Geological-Survey-Fracking-waste-is-the-primary-cause-in-dramatic-rise-of-earthquakes?detail=email\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Geological Survey: Fracking waste is the primary cause of the dramatic rise in earthquakes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. Geological Survey has backed-up what scientists have been suggesting for years\u2013that deep injection of wastewater is the primary cause of the dramatic rise in detected earthquakes:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I thought that this article would be a nice complement to my previous posts <a title=\"Previous post\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/03\/09\/ohio-stiffens-regulations-after-concluding-that-fracking-caused-earthquakes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ohio stiffens regulations after concluding that fracking caused earthquakes<\/a> and <a title=\"Previous post\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/12\/30\/epa-to-natural-gas-companies-give-details-on-fracking-chemicals\/\" target=\"_blank\">EPA to natural gas companies: Give details on \u2018fracking\u2019 chemicals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is now approaching 60 years since I first read about this problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Kos has the article U.S. Geological Survey: Fracking waste is the primary cause of the dramatic rise in earthquakes. The U.S. Geological Survey has backed-up what scientists have been suggesting for years\u2013that deep injection of wastewater is the primary cause of the dramatic rise in detected earthquakes: I thought that this article would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19635,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19634\/revisions\/19635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}