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MACCRACKIN t1_jdku4ld wrote

Yes Sir,, Pump Down Peanut Butter, and coat all those jagged edged fractures that held for a thousands of years, will all of a sudden slip under billions of tons of constant pressure.

Good luck there,, pretty sure many more are coming. I wouldn't be surprised if 100 mini quakes occurs with in a couple years.

Cheers

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samuswashere t1_jdkt1cc wrote

The question of whether 80% is good is a really good one. I’m not an expert on wastewater but I have worked in stormwater treatment. In general it easier to remove a higher percentage of a pollutant if the original concentration is higher. So the average percent removal often isn’t a good indicator of how effective that method of removal will be with different starting concentrations or of what the final concentration to be.

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CatatonicMan t1_jdkrzb0 wrote

Less wild than you're probably imagining.

It's more akin to lubrication, really. The potential energy for the quake was already built up; the injected liquid just gets things moving.

It's roughly analogous to a match starting a forest fire or a yell causing an avalanche.

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pornthrowaway1421 t1_jdkjx6c wrote

Hell in DFW Texas area we had a fracking boom for natural gas about 10 years ago and used to get mini quakes all the way to Oklahoma… it was speculated as the cause but never proven but I can tell you since they stopped drilling new ones it’s stopped

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redditaccount71987 t1_jdkj9l3 wrote

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