{"id":12565,"date":"2013-01-24T09:37:40","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T15:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=12565"},"modified":"2013-02-11T13:01:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T19:01:51","slug":"what-scientists-know-and-dont-know-about-disposal-well-induced-earthquakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/01\/24\/what-scientists-know-and-dont-know-about-disposal-well-induced-earthquakes\/","title":{"rendered":"What Scientists Know and Don&#8217;t Know About Disposal Well-Induced Earthquakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12566\"  class=\"wp-caption module image center\" style=\"max-width: 620px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Some earthquake seismologists say oil and natural gas disposal wells, like this one near Sparks, Okla., are likely triggering earthquakes in Oklahoma and other states in the mid-continent.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/01\/disposal-well3.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12566\" title=\"Oil and Gas Disposal Well\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/01\/disposal-well3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/01\/disposal-well3.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/01\/disposal-well3-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/01\/disposal-well3-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/01\/disposal-well3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Joe Wertz \/ StateImpact Oklahoma<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some earthquake seismologists say oil and natural gas disposal wells, like this one near Sparks, Okla., are likely triggering earthquakes in Oklahoma and other states in the mid-continent.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>The 5.6-magnitude earthquake that shook Oklahoma in November 2011 was the state\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/01\/17\/earthquakes-are-on-the-rise-in-oklahoma-and-researchers-are-asking-why\/\">largest in at least a century<\/a>.<\/p><p>And now the state is at the epicenter of a conversation about whether oil and natural gas production might be driving an increase in earthquakes in states throughout the mid-continent.<\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma is at the epicenter of a conversation about whether oil and natural gas production might be driving an increase in earthquakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":12566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490],"tags":[489,500,238],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12571,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12565\/revisions\/12571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}