{"id":12641,"date":"2013-01-31T08:27:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T14:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=12641"},"modified":"2013-02-11T13:01:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T19:01:34","slug":"seismologists-studying-disposal-well-earthquakes-need-data-that-isnt-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/01\/31\/seismologists-studying-disposal-well-earthquakes-need-data-that-isnt-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Seismologists Studying Disposal Well Earthquakes Need Data That Isn&#8217;t Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12651\"  class=\"wp-caption module image center\" style=\"max-width: 620px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Oklahoma Geological Survey seismologist Austin Holland says proving the link between disposal wells and earthquakes depends on data that isn't collected ahead of time.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/01\/austin-holland-web.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12651\" title=\"Austin Holland\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/01\/austin-holland-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/01\/austin-holland-web.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/01\/austin-holland-web-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/01\/austin-holland-web-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/01\/austin-holland-web-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\">Oklahoma Geological Survey seismologist Austin Holland says proving the link between disposal wells and earthquakes depends on data that isn&#39;t collected ahead of time.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>There is concern among many seismologists that waste fluid disposal wells used by the oil and gas industry could be causing earthquakes. And that connection could have profound effects in big-energy states like Oklahoma.<\/p><p>The scientific consensus is growing, but it\u2019s not unanimous. But there is one thing\u00a0geophysicists\u00a0 and seismologists agree on \u2014 even skeptics: They can&#8217;t get their hands on the data they need to study the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is concern among many seismologists that waste fluid disposal wells used by the oil and gas industry could be causing earthquakes. And that connection could have profound effects in big-energy states like Oklahoma.The scientific consensus is growing, but it\u2019s not unanimous. But there is one thing\u00a0geophysicists\u00a0 and seismologists agree on \u2014 even skeptics: They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":12651,"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\/12641"}],"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=12641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12655,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12641\/revisions\/12655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}