[Smokin' Joe]

A study was done in the Williston Basin, using three parallel horizontal wells and a host of vertical ones. The vertical wells and the outside two horizontal wells were loaded with instrumentation strings to determine the effects of the frac job done in the middle horizontal well.

The data is out there as to just what effects are felt and where from the frac, horizontally and vertically those effects occur.

They could produce that data, and frankly, all else is speculation or BS.

[detective]

I am not familiar with the study you mentioned. It sounds like they are measuring the effect of fracking on the wells.

An earthquake is something far more large. It is the result of the release of stored energy when the earth's plates move relative to one another usually along a fault plane.

There is no possible way fracking could cause the earth's plates to move. The government employees quoted in the article said as much when they said they could not think of a way that fracking could cause an actual earthquake.

Studying the data you mentioned could help to understand the effects of fracking. I don't think that is what the government employees are doing. They are just speculating without doing a study. It is all political.