{"id":614373,"date":"2019-05-02T14:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T18:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=47683e1638937c89ae32661538cf137f"},"modified":"2019-05-02T14:00:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T18:00:15","slug":"computer-model-suggests-earthquakes-are-triggered-well-beyond-fluid-injection-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=614373","title":{"rendered":"Computer model suggests earthquakes are triggered well beyond fluid injection zones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using data from field experiments and modeling of ground faults, researchers at Tufts University have discovered that the practice of subsurface fluid injection used in &#8216;fracking&#8217; and wastewater disposal for oil and gas exploration could cause significant, rapidly spreading earthquake activity beyond the fluid diffusion zone. Deep fluid injections\u2014greater than one kilometer deep\u2014are known to be associated with enhanced seismic activity\u2014often thought to be limited to the areas of fluid diffusion. Yet the study, published today in the journal Science, tests and strongly supports the hypothesis that fluid injections are causing potentially damaging earthquakes further afield by the slow slip of pre-existing fault fracture networks, in domino-like fashion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using data from field experiments and modeling of ground faults, researchers at Tufts University have discovered that the practice of subsurface fluid injection used in &#8216;fracking&#8217; and wastewater disposal for oil and gas exploration could cause signific&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3230,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=614373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614374,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614373\/revisions\/614374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=614373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=614373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=614373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}