Several damaging Los Angeles-area earthquakes of the 1920s and 1930s, including the deadliest ever in Southern California, may have been induced by oil production during the region’s drilling boom of Continue Reading
Oklahoma regulators, working in coordination with federal authorities, closed down more wells in the state in response to an early September earthquake. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded six seismic events Continue Reading
Federal policies and positions on hydraulic fracturing have not changed in response to a weekend earthquake in Oklahoma, a White House spokesman said. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded a magnitude-3.5 tremor Continue Reading
Three minor seismic events were recorded near the shale reserve areas in Oklahoma in the past 24 hours, data for the U.S. Geological Survey show. USGS data show the strongest Continue Reading
Shale-rich Oklahoma experienced more than a dozen seismic events in the five days ending Friday, data from the U.S. Geological Survey show. A magnitude-2.7 tremor was reported shortly after midnight Continue Reading
Stopping an earthquake before it starts? It sounds like a feat possible only for a superhero. But in Kansas and Oklahoma state policymakers are showing that insofar as humans are Continue Reading
In recent weeks, the number of earthquakes felt in Oklahoma has decreased compared with this time last year, which might reflect measures state officials took earlier this year to severely Continue Reading
The number of earthquakes in Oklahoma has fallen 25% in 2016 compared with a year earlier, a decline attributed in part to actions by state regulators to police the oil Continue Reading
If you reside on the west coast, you are living on borrowed time. As you will see below, stress has been building up along the San Andreas fault for more Continue Reading
A magnitude-3.7 earthquake hit central Oklahoma early Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported after several similar small tremors rocked the oil-rich state last week. The USGS recorded the tremor near Continue Reading
