West Texas has seen 90 earthquakes just in the last seven days.It's been one week since the first 4.9 magnitude earthquake occurred, starting a swarm of earthqu
There have been four earthquakes that were 4.0 magnitude or larger, with the highest magnitude at 5.1 Friday morning.
The suspected cause of these earthquakes is attributed to natural and human activities. There are faults in the area that are likely active. The human activity can be linked to "water flooding" which is injecting water into the earth to help with oil and gas extractions. This process causes the fault to lose friction, causing a fault to move. Not fracking.
The RRC has been investigating the earthquakes that occurred last week in the Camp Springs area along the Fisher/Scurry county line in West Texas. In efforts to reduce seismicity possibly caused by underground injection of produced water, several operators in the area have converted deep saltwater disposal wells to shallow saltwater disposal wells within the last year.
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