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Not that kind of earthquake. Fracking does not and cannot cause large, deep earthquakes like the one recently in Turkey, in which plates significantly move in
by Tuna-Fish 4y ago
Not that kind of earthquake.
Fracking does not and cannot cause large, deep earthquakes like the one recently in Turkey, in which plates significantly move in respect to each other.
They can cause very shallow, weak earthquakes, where the top of earth's crust slightly moves.
- Someone 4y agoShallow, weak (in magnitude) earthquakes can do significant damage locally because the intensity of an earthquake (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismic_intensity_scales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismic_intensity_scales) decreases with distance to its source. https://www.insidescience.org/news/2019-year-fracking-earthquakes-turned-deadly https://www.insidescience.org/news/2019-year-fracking-earthq...: “The Feb. 25 earthquake was only a magnitude 4.9, which would not traditionally be considered very dangerous. But it was able to destroy older and more vulnerable buildings because it was so close to the surface -- only about one kilometer deep according to the new study”