[Vaquero]

Conservative friends in OK have been concerned with the marked increase in earthquakes since fracking increased.

I’m not a geologist nor do I play one on tv. Just wondering about this coincidence.

[MrEdd]

Taking Oklahoma history back in the seventies we learned that there were a lot of earthquakes in Oklahoma in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The twentieth century was blessed with a lull.

[Bubba_Leroy]

Conservative friends in OK have been concerned with the marked increase in earthquakes since fracking increased.

Building construction and highway traffic are just as likely (i.e., not at all) to cause earthquakes as fracking.

[Reeses]

Yes, any geo activity can trigger earthquakes however small man-made earthquakes are better than one big natural one. Frequent little quakes release the growing mountain of energy potential slowly, similar to avalanche control.