Topic: California unseated as earthquake capital by unlikely newcomer

[Bunty]

And it's not even close. 
http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/02/08/49726/california-unseated-as-earthquake-capital-by-unlik/

[Harryca]

Not surprised.  Is Oklahoma offering earthquake insurance yet?

[Harryca]

An excerpt from an article on the earthquakes in Texas.

Between Jan. 6 and 7, the United States Geological Survey recorded 12 earthquakes in the Irving, Texas, area. Since 2008, more than 100 quakes have hit North Texas; 45 were in the Irving area, and more than 20 happened in the last three months. Prior to 2008, the single seismic event reported in that area was in 1950. While it has not been officially proven in Texas that fracking is to blame for the seismic activity, the evidence suggests so. "There's no doubt in my mind that fracking has something to do with those small, micro-earthquakes," Dr. Fred Busche, a geology professor at Brookhaven College and fracking expert, said. Irving has more than 2,000 fracking wells nearby, as well as some of the more than 216,000 statewide injection wells, which are responsible for disposing of fracking's wastewater byproduct. Located thousands of feet below the ground, these wells hold millions of gallons of chemically tainted water. A 2012 study by Cliff Frohlich, senior research scientist at the University of Texas at Austin Institute for Geophysics, found that some of the disposal wells are also on Dallas-Fort Worth fault lines. "When you take something away, a collapse is going to occur," Busche said. "It's happened at every oil and gas station in the U.S. It's happened at every place they've done fracking; it's even happened at places where they haven't done fracking as a result of the removal of fluids.

Rest of article: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=EQ-20150212-46971-USA

[ValentineWeather]

Reminds me of the big tobacco companies where for years they argued, there was no proof cigarette smoking was harmful.