wastewater injection

Maintenance workers inspect the damage to one of the spires on Benedictine Hall at St. Gregory’s University following an earthquake in Shawnee, Okla, Nov. 6, 2011. (AP/Sue Ogrocki)
(REPORT) — Oklahoma has registered about 1,829 earthquakes in the past year, attributable to wastewater injection from deep underground drilling wells — wells that will likely multiply under an incoming Donald Trump administration.

Since 2012, scientists have suspected that the earthquakes plaguing Texas and Oklahoma are results of wastewater injections from fracking and conventional drilling. And while they were relatively certain that the 2012 4.8 earthquake that rocked Eastern Texas was as a result of this phenomenon, they were still searching for definitive proof.