According to a Michigan Tech University evaluation, humans usually do not experience earthquakes of a magnitude of 2.5 or below.
Although they only inflict modest harm, those between 2.5 and 5.4 are often felt. Since all of the seismic activity in the last 24 hours has occurred.
In West Texas, it seems probable that fracking operations were the cause. According to Peter Hennings, research professor.
At The University of Texas’s Bureau of Economic Geology, “the practice of deep injection of oil field wastewater, known as saltwater disposal, has the strongest tie to the increase.
In the rate of earthquakes and to the strongest earthquakes that have occurred in recent years.” But it wasn’t until 2015 that scientists realized fracking was the cause of the state’s earthquakes.
Researchers from Southern Methodist University examined 84 days between November 2013 and January 2014 and discovered that 27 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or higher occurred.
