Ah, is there more than the author's opinion to base the assertions on? If so where is the data, including the uncertainty statistics?

That's not how we do science anymore. We pronounce links. And a link has clearly been pronounced. Don't be a denier.

Lets see, one of these should cover it
Earthquakes changed before
It's the sun"
Animals and plants can adapt
It hasn't quaked since 1998
It's cosmic rays
1934 - shakiest year on record
Mars has mars-quakes
It's a 1500 year cycle
Earthquakes are what plant crave
There's no empirical evidence
Earthquakes was higher in the past
Scientists can't even predict Earthquakes
It's the ocean
Greenland ice sheet won't collapse due to Earthquakes
Solar Cycle Length proves its the sun
Mauna Loa is a volcano
Turrets syndrome

was pumped into another set of depleted oil wells targeted for waste storage

In another words, it was just a hit-and-miss affair, that this earthquake wasn't caused with hydrofracing directly. Maybe it actually was a live production well - but the mining company doesn't want to admit it openly for not to raise the resistance of publics against hydrofracing as such. BTW I'm living in original Prague - it seems a large Czech community comes from Ohio...

Stupidity produces it's own punishment.

I love it.

"Further, wellhead records showed that after 13 years of pumping at zero to low pressure, injection pressure rose more than 10-fold from 2001 to 2006, the study says."

Rose to what pressure? 10" WC? 100psi? 10,000psi?

Not much info here for having been studied for 1.5 years.

Mr. Scooter, don't confuse the pop news article with the research paper. I don't know how many times this has to be repeated.

Some things don't sound right. This is certainly one of them. You have to take this "research" with a pinch of salt.

@tomator,
Could actually be a good thing. Pump water into active faults as a lubricant to keep the fault moving and prevent the big build up of stresses that cause the huge quakes. A team swoops in after a big quake (so as not to be blamed for it) starts drilling and pumping. California could be the leader in a new industry.

I understand the point about releasing pressure before a larger event would occur, but does anybody else think it is unsafe to be fracking so close to a supervolcano?

If there were no risk why in the 1960's did the military stop waste water injection around the Rocky Mountain Arsenal near Denver?