Brian Whitman on a local radio show here today tried insinuating that fracking was the cause of earthquakes in Oklahoma. His co-worker who lived there said earthquakes were always happening there.
BTW the biggest earthquakes were the New Madrid, Missouri ones and that happened in 1811 and 1812
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1811%E2%80%9312_New_Madrid_earthquakes
Earthquakes are always happening here now. 5 years ago, we had almost zero. Now we have more than California. Over 500 last year. They are not caused by fracking, however. It is the wastewater injection wells that activated the fault line running through eastern OK. Work is being done to manage that better, and hopefully, they will calm back down.
The sky is not falling and very little damage has actually been done. One spring gust front causes more damage than all the earthquakes we have had combined. It is just scary for the more cajones impaired people. I will admit to not caring much for being thrown out of bed at 3:00 in the morning. Better that, than the tornado sirens going off.