Disposal Well Shutdown After Swarm of Earthquakes in South-Central Oklahoma

TitleDisposal Well Shutdown After Swarm of Earthquakes in South-Central Oklahoma
Publication TypeWeb Article
Year of PublicationSubmitted
Abstract

A Love County disposal well was shutdown last week after a state seismologist suggested it might have triggered a swarm of damaging earthquakes that shook the area for weeks in September.

The well, located near Marietta, was new, and waste fluid injection started on Sept. 3. The quakes started two weeks later, on Sept. 17,

URLhttp://stateimpact.npr.org/oklahoma/2013/10/03/disposal-well-shutdown-after-swarm-of-earthquakes-in-south-central-oklahoma/