Recently, the New York Times reported that a magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck Cushing Hub, one of the world’s biggest crude oil storage facilities, in Oklahoma, USA. Scientists involved in a study on the Cushing earthquakes, a month earlier, stated that a massive earthquake could destroy the storage tanks and pipelines. According to Dr. McNamara, a research geophysicist at Colorado’s National Earthquake Information Center, ruptures in the storage tanks at the facility could be very harmful to the environment (as the likelihood of disasters such as fires). This earthquake is one of the major earthquakes that has plagued the area in recent years.
It is widely believed that the injection of wastewater into the Earth by the natural gas and oil
