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The earthquakes happened in an area that is already being watched by Texas Railroad Commission (RRC), the state's oil regulator, due to a jump in seismic activities linked to fracking.
A rare strong earthquake struck near Midland, Texas, on Monday evening, triggering more than 1,000 reports of shaking, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. ... The area is known for fracking, or ...
The Texas Railroad Commission will try to determine if there is any connection between fracking and 61 earthquakes last week in Scurry County. The Texas Railroad Commission will try to determine ...
Later the methane was linked to nearby fracking operations. [174] [175] January 1, 2015 – Irving, earthquake [176] May 7, 2015 - An oil tank battery caught fire, north of Whitesboro. [177] May 19, 2015 – Fracking well blew out in Karnes County, Texas, spraying a toxic mix of chemicals, and forcing the evacuation of 20 families. [178] [179]
Most earthquakes in the state have been small or have produced minimal impacts. No earthquake-related fatalities have been reported in the state, though one earthquake in Texas caused a death in the neighboring Mexican state of Chihuahua in 1923. The earliest recorded earthquake in Texas occurred near Seguin and New Braunfels on February 13 ...
If sufficient shear stress is present, the structure may slip in shear and generate seismic events over a range of magnitudes; natural gas drilling may have caused earthquakes in North Texas. [136] Reports of minor tremors of no greater than 2.8 on the Richter scale were reported on June 2, 2009, in Cleburne, Texas , the first in the town's 140 ...
The Texas Railroad Commission cited seven earthquakes in the area between Nov. 8 and Dec. 17, 2023 ranging in magnitude from 3.6 to 5.2 – a quake reported Nov. 8 near Coalson Draw, Texas that ...
The seismographs revealed a spatial association between earthquakes and Class II injection wells, most of which were established to dispose of flowback and produced water from Barnett Shale wells, near Dallas-Fort Worth and Cleburne, Texas. Some of the earthquakes were greater than magnitude 3.0, and were felt by people at the surface, and ...