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 ...

A new report from the US Geological Survey has revealed that the oil and gas industry is causing earthquakes in the Central and Eastern United States at an alarming rate. Fracking is part of the ...

Researchers are pretty sure at this point that the increase in earthquakes in the middle of the US in recent years have been caused by fracking. The USGS put out a news release in February that ...

found that they could use the depth of the drill sites to roughly predict how big the earthquake they caused would be. In other words, the deeper the fracking site, the stronger the quake.