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01-18-2015, 11:47 AM
Tony,
There has been a massive increase in seismicity in Oklahoma the last couple of years, especially in 2014, which is almost certainly related to injection wells used to get rid of fluid used for fracking. There has also been extra seismicity in Texas and Kansas. A couple of/few years ago there was a lot of seismicity in Arkansas. Part of this was probably related to an injection well. The two recent M3+ quakes were in eastern Connecticut and the Gulf of St Lawrence, Canada (M4+). Pretty sure there is no fracking there. Injections wells exist for other reasons, but I suspect those quakes were not triggered by man.
Chris
There has been a massive increase in seismicity in Oklahoma the last couple of years, especially in 2014, which is almost certainly related to injection wells used to get rid of fluid used for fracking. There has also been extra seismicity in Texas and Kansas. A couple of/few years ago there was a lot of seismicity in Arkansas. Part of this was probably related to an injection well. The two recent M3+ quakes were in eastern Connecticut and the Gulf of St Lawrence, Canada (M4+). Pretty sure there is no fracking there. Injections wells exist for other reasons, but I suspect those quakes were not triggered by man.
Chris