Stanford Prof Says Fracking & Earthquakes are a Concern

Every three or four months, as regular as clockwork, the mainstream media resurrects the claim that "fracking causes earthquakes." We've written about it a number of times (see MDN's Industrywide Issues>Earthquakes category). Any kind of underground activity causes small (micro) "earthquakes." But the kind you feel on top of the ground--the kind of earthquake that makes the surface move? No, fracking does not do that. At least almost never--we are aware of a single instance in England where a well was fracked directly on a fault line that caused an earthquake (see Report from England Links Fracking to Earthquakes). At yesterday's "Shale Gas Promises and Challenges" event in Cleveland, a pro-drilling professor from Stanford University, Mark Zoback, playing to an anti-drilling crowd, said fracking's link to earthquakes is a concern...

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