02-03-2017 01:18 via popsci.com.au

The 2017 earthquake forecast predicts that man-made quakes will continue to shake the country

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) announced a new earthquake forecast on Wednesday, highlighting areas in the country that can expect to shake in the next year. “Overall the rates of Earthquakes have declined in the central and eastern U.S. That's the good news, that we've had these declines,” says Mark Petersen, chief of the USGS National Seismic Hazard Mapping Project. “But it's a more complicated story because we've had more magnitude 5 earthquakes in Oklahoma than
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