Gas explosions from fracking

Hutchinson, Kansas
On January 17, 2001, an appliance store and two other buildings ignited and an explosion shattered windows for blocks. Three miles away, there was a 30-foot-tall "geyser of gas." Elsewhere, the ground sprayed brown briny water. The following morning, a new plume of gas and water went through the floor of mobile home, killing two people. Geologists determined that the eruptions were produced from an underground gas storage field located seven miles away.

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