Which State Experienced More Earthquakes in 2014 Than California?

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Bloomberg's Barry Ritholtz provides a useful selection of daily news stories. This morning, he posted an article that originally appeared in revealnews.org about US earthquake incidences in 2014. Now, one would speculate that the Vegas odds would be strongest on California as the state with the highest number of reported seismic episodes. Well, sometimes the odds makers get snookered. According to the revealnews.org story, the unlikely leader for last year was Oklahoma. In fact, the OK State experienced three times the number of earthquakes -- 253! -- as did the Golden State.

The data gave rise to an immediate suspicion that fracking encouraged Oklahoma's alarmingly high tremor rate. That speculation withers in its inability to prove that the frackers are fracking with the environment. However, I suppose it's fair to say that there's a whole lot of shakin' goin' on in the OK State.