Fracking and Earthquakes: A Chat with Dr. Brett Carpenter, a Geology Expert at OU

Public Radio Tulsa | By Rich Fisher

Published October 25, 2019 at 10:27 AM CDT

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If fracking leads to more frequent earthquakes, then why do some states that've experienced widespread fracking (like Oklahoma) have so many more earthquakes than do certain other states (like Ohio) that've also experienced widespread fracking? The answer might be in the "basement," so to speak. Our guest is Dr. Brett Carpenter, an Assistant Professor of Geology and Geophysics at The University of Oklahoma. He recently spoke here on the TU campus as part of Earth Science Week, which was presented by TU's Department of Geosciences. He spoke on "The Susceptibility of Oklahoma's Basement to Seismic Reactivation: Constraining the Necessary Ingredients for Induced Earthquakes."

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Rich Fisher

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.

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