[Dog Gone]

Side note: There were several small quakes near Oklahoma City recently. USGS is now monitoring the area to see if they are related to salt water injection of oil wells.

I don't know if that's true, but if it is, it's the stupidest waste of tax money ever. There is NO way that a salt water disposal well could possibly cause an earthquake.

You can't even come up with a theory that was anything more than asinine.

[Strategerist]

There is NO way that a salt water disposal well could possibly cause an earthquake.

That injection of liquids into wells can cause small earthquakes is well-studied and accepted in the scientific community.

[Strategerist]

http://www.nyx.net/~dcypser/induceq/iis.html

Over 100 scientific papers regarding injection-induced earthquakes - the most famous incidence of which was the waste injection at Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Colorado causing earthquakes in the 1960s.

[PAR35]

There is NO way that a salt water disposal well could possibly cause an earthquake.

"During the past several years, salt water injection in Paradox Valley has triggered earthquakes, and a reduction in well pressure has diminished the size of the earthquakes."
http://geosurvey.state.co.us/Default.aspx?tabid=330

See also Monson v. State, 673 P.2d 839 (OK 1983) for some litigation on the subject. http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=9570