A good friend of mine, a very successful petroleum geologist who happens to live in Edmond, suggests that if wastewater injection is causing the increase in quakes in Oklahoma, that we owe the industry our thanks. Each small quake relieves some seismic stress, possibly preventing a big one.
Personally I think we may be experiencing some precursors to a pretty large event anyway.
I too, think perhaps these are precursors, and are indicative of a soon to be large event. Had a 5.2 in normally non-active SW New Mexico a few weeks ago. There is NO fracking in this region.
That’s exactly what I was thinking! We should be fracking around the San Andreas. Think of he lives and property that could be saved!