Nobody’s fracking where these earthquakes are, genius. The fracking is in the S and SW parts of the state, this is in central east, hundreds of miles away.
This sure wasn’t where anybody expected an earthquake to be. If one just happened at a fracking site (these were thankfully far away), can you imagine the lawsuits? Whether or not it was a coinky-dink?
I can't imagine that anyone with half a brain would believe that fracking shale would cause an earthquake. The amount of energy required to cause a 5.2 earthquake, which is the equivalent of more than 480 metric tons of TNT, is not possible when fracking.
Besides Shale is soft compared to bedrock. I don't believe that shale rubbing together would cause seismic activity on that scale.