Researchers report that the roughness of pre-existing faults and associated stress heterogeneity in geological reservoirs play a key role for causing human-made earthquakes, so-called runaway events.

Researchers report a model for forecasting earthquake hazards in Oklahoma due to fluid injection. Over the past decade, the central and eastern United States have experienced an increased number of ...

Earthquakes triggered by fluids injected deep underground, such as during the controversial practice of fracking, may be more common than previously thought, a new study suggests. Fluid injections ...

Geoscientists have found that shallow wastewater injection -- not deep wastewater injections -- can drive widespread deep earthquake activity in unconventional oil and gas production fields. In a ...

A seismology team led by Southern Methodist University (SMU), Dallas, finds that high volumes of wastewater injection combined with saltwater (brine) extraction from natural gas wells is the most ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Two new studies of earthquakes near injection wells have seismologists using words rarely heard ...

A federal agency is considering whether to continue an underground injection program in western Montrose County that has proven highly effective in reducing salt levels in the Colorado River Basin but ...