Actually, if fracking did do this, it could save countless lives and billions of dollars.
Simple question: What is more destructive, three dozen 1.0 magnitude earthquakes, or one 6.0 magnitude quake?
In some circumstances, after a big earthquake in an earthquake prone region, it might be a very good idea to relieve stress by causing a whole bunch of little earthquakes.
I was going to say pretty much the same thing.