{"id":23778,"date":"2015-05-04T14:16:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T19:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=23778"},"modified":"2015-05-04T14:16:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T19:16:42","slug":"stateimpact-on-oeta-why-states-official-position-on-earthquake-cause-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2015\/05\/04\/stateimpact-on-oeta-why-states-official-position-on-earthquake-cause-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"StateImpact on OETA: Why State&#8217;s Official Position on Earthquake Cause Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/njxyii6QBnY\" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p><p>The Oklahoma Geological Survey <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2015\/04\/21\/state-seismologist-oklahoma-earthquakes-very-likely-triggered-by-oil-and-gas-disposal-wells\/\">recently revised<\/a> its formal position on Oklahoma&#8217;s exponential surge in earthquake activity, acknowledging for the first time in a official public statement that most of the seismic activity recently recorded in the state was <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/topic\/earthquakes-2\/\">linked to oil and gas activity<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p><p>On the May 1 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oeta.tv\/programs\/onr\/\">episode<\/a> of <em>Oklahoma News Report<\/em>, I talked with OETA host Dick Pryor about the earthquake situation and what the formal acknowledgement means for the state going forward, and also detailed efforts by the U.S. Geological Survey to forecast the hazard posed by oil and gas-related earthquakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oklahoma Geological Survey recently revised its formal position on Oklahoma&#8217;s exponential surge in earthquake activity, acknowledging for the first time in a official public statement that most of the seismic activity recently recorded in the state was linked to oil and gas activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":23780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490],"tags":[489,500,238,105],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23778"}],"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=23778"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23788,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23778\/revisions\/23788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}