A group of seismologists from the United States confirmed the opinion that has long been "circulating" in expert circles. Namely, there is a clear relationship between shale oil production and earthquakes.
Scientists have been conducting their research from 2008 to the present. Researchers assure that there is a clear relationship between the method of shale oil production and seismic activity. Namely, due to the injection of a large amount of industrial water into the soil, hydraulic pressure increases in the fractures of the earth's crust. This leads to the intensification of seismic activity, which creates the basis for earthquakes.
An example is the magnitude 5 tremor that occurred in Texas in 2008. Around that time, the development of shale oil fields began in the United States.
Seismologists note that with the help of their developed method of analyzing earth faults, it will be possible to predict where the next earthquake will happen, provoked by a similar mining method.
Bogdan Svetlov
