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09-05-2016, 04:55 AM
Oklahoma's magnitude 5.6 quake comes amid concerns around oil and gas boom
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A record-tying earthquake rattled Oklahoma and five surrounding states on Saturday morning.
The 5.6.-magnitude temblor (https://www.usgs.gov/news/magnitude-56-earthquake-oklahoma) near Pawnee, Oklahoma, is one of thousands to strike the state in the last few years.
State and federal scientists say (http://earthquakes.ok.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/OGS_Summary_Statement_2015_04_20.pdf) the swarm of earthquakes in central and **rth-central Oklahoma is connected to the area's oil and gas companies, which are pumping copious amounts of drilling wastewater into underground disposal wells.
SEE ALSO: Here's why Italy is prone to devastating earthquakes (http://mashable.com/2016/08/24/why-italy-is-vulnerable-to-earthquakes/)
Oklahoma's Gov. Mary Fallin this weekend declared (https://www.ok.gov/triton/modules/newsroom/newsroom_article.php?id=223&article_id=25079%20) a state of emergency for Pawnee County after the earthquake struck on Sept. 3 near Pawnee, a city of about 2,200 people. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/04/oklahoma-earthquake-swarm-pawnee/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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A record-tying earthquake rattled Oklahoma and five surrounding states on Saturday morning.
The 5.6.-magnitude temblor (https://www.usgs.gov/news/magnitude-56-earthquake-oklahoma) near Pawnee, Oklahoma, is one of thousands to strike the state in the last few years.
State and federal scientists say (http://earthquakes.ok.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/OGS_Summary_Statement_2015_04_20.pdf) the swarm of earthquakes in central and **rth-central Oklahoma is connected to the area's oil and gas companies, which are pumping copious amounts of drilling wastewater into underground disposal wells.
SEE ALSO: Here's why Italy is prone to devastating earthquakes (http://mashable.com/2016/08/24/why-italy-is-vulnerable-to-earthquakes/)
Oklahoma's Gov. Mary Fallin this weekend declared (https://www.ok.gov/triton/modules/newsroom/newsroom_article.php?id=223&article_id=25079%20) a state of emergency for Pawnee County after the earthquake struck on Sept. 3 near Pawnee, a city of about 2,200 people. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/04/oklahoma-earthquake-swarm-pawnee/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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