[Rockhounds] Stanford study finds wastewater disposal from oil productionmtriggered major earthquake in Canada

[Paul]

Stanford study finds wastewater disposal from oil production
triggered major earthquake in Canada, Stanford News Service March 23, 2023
https://news.stanford.edu/press-releases/2023/03/23/oil-sand-wastewaberta-earthquake/

Study: oil and gas activity may have caused 2022 Alberta earthquake
A new study from Stanford University has found that wastewater injected
underground by fossil fuel companies triggered an earthquake in 2022.
Offshore technologies, Annabel Cossins-Smith
https://www.offshore-technology.com/news/study-finds-2022-alberta-earthquake-caused-by-humans/

The open access paper is:

Schultz, R., Woo, J.U., Pepin, K., Ellsworth, W.L., Zebkar, H., Segall,
P., Gu, Y.J. and Samsonov, S., 2023. Disposal from in situ bitumen
recovery induced the ML 5.6 Peace River earthquake. Geophysical
Research Letters, 50(6), p.e2023GL102940.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL102940

Yours,

Paul H.