Fracking
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Fracking is a well stimulation technique involving the fracturing of formations in bedrock by a pressurized liquid. The process involves the high-pressure injection of "fracking fluid" into a wellbore
Fracking the Bakken Formation in North Dakota
Well stimulation methods. Fracking is highlighted in yellow.
Shale gas drilling rig near Alvarado, Texas
A graphic created to argue that modern-era fracking poses no risk of groundwater contamination.
Earthquake
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An earthquake, also called a quake, tremor, or temblor, is the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes can r
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…these are outweighed by the environmental impacts, which include groundwater and surface water contamination, noise and air pollution, the triggering of earthquakes, and the resulting hazards to public health and the environment. Research has found adverse health effects in populations living near hydraulic fracturing…
Aerial photo of the San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain, northwest of Los Angeles
Collapsed Gran Hotel building in the San Salvador metropolis, after the shallow 1986 San Salvador earthquake
The 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes ruptured along segments of the East Anatolian Fault at supershear speeds; more than 50,000 people died in both countries.
The Messina earthquake and tsunami took about 80,000 lives on December 28, 1908, in Sicily and Calabria.