“We just don’t know where all the faults are located,” Robert Skoumal, a PhD candidate in geophysics and seismology at Miami University of Ohio and one of the co-authors of the new research, said in press release accompanying the study. “It makes sense to have close cooperation among government, industry and the scientific community as hydraulic fracturing operations expand in areas where there’s the potential for unknown pre-existing faults.”
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 18:29:21 +0000