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Re:Drilling Reawakens Sleeping Faults in Texas, Leads to Ear... by exabrial on Friday November 24, 2017 @05:10PM (#15773301)
Wrong title. Poor management of salt-water injection, NOT drilling, fracking, et all, may lubricate certain types of fault lines in sedimentary deposits.

Part of the problem is the Obama-era EPA did not allow companies to write off dry-holes, leading to a shortage of wells that can be used for salt-water injection. This put a stress on the existing injection infrastructure.

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Re:Drilling Reawakens Sleeping Faults in Texas, Leads to Ear... by yread on Saturday November 25, 2017 @04:04AM (#15775130)
This is on bestof now:

https://np.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/31wo57/the_chevro...

compare the techniques mentioned with OP's comment

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Re:Drilling Reawakens Sleeping Faults in Texas, Leads to Ear... by aaronbrethorst on Friday November 24, 2017 @11:55PM (#15774510)
It wasn't the smoking that killed the smoker, it was the lung cancer. And Obama.
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Re:Drilling Reawakens Sleeping Faults in Texas, Leads to Ear... by wavefunction on Friday November 24, 2017 @10:45PM (#15774341)
Would there be any salt-water injection without drilling for petroleum or natural gas?

One follows the other.

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Re:Drilling Reawakens Sleeping Faults in Texas, Leads to Ear... by petre on Saturday November 25, 2017 @01:44AM (#15774765)
Also for extracting geothermal energy, but this is usually done in more active areas.
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