In your opinion, do you attribute the increased number of earthquakes to any Fracking done in the area? That’s what some are beginning to say.
I really don’t know when fracking picked up here, so I couldn’t say from my own knowledge, but I am aware of those who say it correlates.
What I do know is that when I first got to Oklahoma (again, from being here before) I directly saw this absolutely dramatic increase in earthquakes, and we’ve had the house rocking back and forth a number of times!
The problem is it’s awfully difficult to find an expert that doesn’t have an agenda. We need to hear from geologists who aren’t opposed to fracking.
On the bright side, maybe we can sue big oil over the cracks in our tile shower. ;-)
Fracking doesn't cause earthquakes. Earthquakes are caused by tectonic plate shift.
Fracking may lubricate fault lines so that the energy stored by tectonic plate shifts is released more often, resulting in a larger number of small earthquakes.
The is a smaller number of big earthquakes: maybe one big one every 100 years or so. Which do you think people would prefer?