Fracking-Linked Earthquakes May Strike Far from Wells

Originally published by Live Science
By Becky Oskin · May 8, 2014

By Becky Oskin, Staff Writer   |   May 02, 2014 04:18pm ET

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Fracking may cause earthquakes much farther from the sites of its wastewater wells than previously thought, researchers said here Friday (May 2) at the annual meeting of the Seismological Society of America.