The research is in the form of a computer model and field experiment data of ground faults. The combined approach indicates that there is a connection between subsurface fluid injections and ...

Soil turning to liquid after an earthquake was scary, seen all over Christchurch as the quakes hit; pictures of soil turning to slush alarmed New Zealanders, most of whom had no idea the ground they ...

Wastewater injection resulting from oil and gas production in Oklahoma caused a dramatic rise in seismic activity in the state between 2009 and 2015. But regulatory efforts to backfill some injection ...

The Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) is collecting data and analyzing recent injection well activity in Reno County in an effort to uncover the cause of a series of earthquakes in the Hutchinson ...

This Sept. 24, 2013, file photo shows a jar holding waste water from hydraulic fracturing is held up to the light at a recycling site in Midland, Texas. Researchers at Southern Methodist University ...

In recent weeks, North Texans felt the aftershock of several earthquakes originating near Hermleigh in Scurry County, about 250 miles west of downtown Dallas. The cause of these quakes has yet to be ...

It sounds like a disaster waiting to happen - but scientists have just set off thousands of earthquakes deep beneath the Swiss Alps.

Wastewater injection resulting from oil and gas production in Oklahoma caused a dramatic rise in seismic activity in the state between 2009 and 2015. But regulatory efforts to backfill some injection ...