On Wednesday, 2 energy companies asked a judge to toss out a lawsuit by an Oklahoma woman who alleges she was injured in an earthquake caused by the injection of fracking wastewater deep into the ground.
Oklahomans never would have guessed 10 years ago – even 5 years ago – that their state would soon lead the world in earthquakes, but that’s the situation they find themselves in today and experts are warning the “Big One” is coming.
More than 5,000 earthquakes have struck the state just this year. Whether Oklahomans are getting used to the shaking or not, they’ve been warned that the magnitude of the quakes will only grow in severity, and they could be even stronger than the 5.6 temblor that hit the state in 2011. [1]
