Miles Wilson, PhD student, Durham University, UK (IMAGE)

Durham University

Miles Wilson, PhD student, Durham University, UK

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Miles Wilson, PhD student, Durham University, UK, who has led research showing that the risk of man-made earthquakes due to fracking is greatly reduced if high-pressure fluid injection used to crack underground rocks is 895m away from faults in the Earth's crust.

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Durham University

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