Oil and gas drilling in Texas shale plays pollutes the air, erodes soil and contaminates water, while the disposal of millions of gallons of wastewater causes earthquakes, a consortium of the state’s ...

Global distribution of natural and induced seismicity. Natural earthquakes with moment magnitude higher than 5 are color-coded according to their hypocenter depth (upper right colorbar, U.S.

Earthquakes in the American state of Utah, the Soultz-sous-Forêts region of France or in the Dutch province of Groningen should not be able to occur even if the subsurface has been exploited for ...

Prologue -- What are earthquakes like? : Some typical earthquakes : New Madrid--1811-12 ; San Francisco--1906 ; Kwanto, Japan--1923 ; Grand Banks--1929 ; Long Beach ...

A mild earthquake that rattled parts of southern and central Ontario on Tuesday might just have you wondering how often this part of the province ...