Residents on the popular island of Santorini have experienced hundreds of earthquakes this week while researchers have ...
Another earthquake has rattled a South Texas town near San Antonio, showing a continued trend upward in both frequency and strength of earthquakes in area.
The good news for 2024 U.S. quakes — no casualties and little damage. On the other side of the scale, induced earthquake activity remains high and our response to tsunami warnings leaves much ...
According to the USGS, fracking, mining and building dams have all been attributed to induced seismicity, where an earthquake is caused by human activity. In the south-central United States ...
But regulatory efforts to backfill some injection wells with cement and reduce injection volumes have been effective in lowering the state's induced earthquake rate, according to a study in The ...
meaning the lag time between extraction and a potential induced earthquake would be a matter of days rather than weeks. Although the earthquakes began just before oil extraction started ...
The correlation between oil and gas activity and induced earthquakes is well-documented around the world. Magnitude 3 quakes can be felt and even cause damage, according to seismicity experts ...
In fact, Rubinstein told MySA earlier this year that an M4.7 earthquake on February 17 could set a national record as being the strongest human-induced earthquake in the United States.
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) has called on residents in Southern Leyte to avoid six ...