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TurningTwo t1_jdiws9z wrote

They did that at Rocky Mountain Arsenal back in the 1960’s. Injected all manner of hazardous waste into the deep subsurface, resulting in a series of damaging earthquakes in the Denver area.

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pornthrowaway1421 t1_jdkjx6c wrote

Hell in DFW Texas area we had a fracking boom for natural gas about 10 years ago and used to get mini quakes all the way to Oklahoma… it was speculated as the cause but never proven but I can tell you since they stopped drilling new ones it’s stopped

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cdrchandler t1_jdkmsuu wrote

Same in South Texas with the Eagle Ford shale fracking over the last decade.

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kilranian t1_jdmiau3 wrote

They occurred in Oklahoma to a much greater degree, and the Oklahoma Geological Survey (the state level USGS) published information demonstrating it was the fault of fracking.

If course, that was after oil companies (specifically Harold Hamm) and the University of Oklahoman's President, David Boren, attempted to stop them from publishing.

A quick source for the political interference: https://stateimpact.npr.org/oklahoma/2015/04/09/oil-billionaire-sought-meeting-with-ou-president-boren-on-oklahoma-quake-research-as-far-back-as-2011/

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Otherwise-Out t1_jdn8jok wrote

I remember this! I was still rather young and didn't have a good idea of what was going on.

During one of em my parents argued about whether it was an earthquake or a tornado.

Good times

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pornthrowaway1421 t1_jdnkql1 wrote

I still live here(working pump about 50yards from my front yard) but man did they drill so many, I remember the country side filled with old school well towers like it was wild west

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Shambhala87 t1_jdlrjmq wrote

Michigan had a couple earthquakes pretty close together back around 2012. I was led to believe it was because of fracking pumping water deep underground. Having lived there my whole life, and no one from there ever experiencing one prior, this was the most probable cause.

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