Los terremotos inducidos. Un fuerte aumento en la sismicidad del centro de Oklahoma desde 2008, inducido por la

K M Keranen1, M Weingarten2, G A Abers3

  • 1Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. keranen@cornell.edu.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|July 5, 2014
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Resumen

La inyección de aguas residuales de pozos de desecho de alta velocidad en Oklahoma está vinculada a un aumento significativo en la actividad sísmica. La migración de fluidos de estos pozos puede desencadenar eventos sísmicos hasta a 35 kilómetros de distancia.

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