So who are we supposed to trust?

colaguy wrote:From the USGS News Release:

"Many questions have been raised about whether hydraulic fracturing—commonly referred to as “fracking”—is responsible for the recent increase of earthquakes. USGS’s studies suggest that the actual hydraulic fracturing process is only occasionally the direct cause of felt earthquakes."

This doesn't sound like a resounding admittance that fracking causes earthquakes.  

• Oklahoma rocked by more magnitude-3 quakes than California
  
• Wasterwater injection process activates long-dormant faults
  

Wordslinger wrote:

colaguy wrote:From the USGS News Release:

"Many questions have been raised about whether hydraulic fracturing—commonly referred to as “fracking”—is responsible for the recent increase of earthquakes. USGS’s studies suggest that the actual hydraulic fracturing process is only occasionally the direct cause of felt earthquakes."

This doesn't sound like a resounding admittance that fracking causes earthquakes.  

Here's a quote from the report itself. It sounds absolutely certain that fracking causes earthquakes:

Oil and gas drilling triggers man-made earthquakes in eight states, USGS finds

• Oklahoma rocked by more magnitude-3 quakes than California
  
• Wasterwater injection process activates long-dormant faults
  

 
 Professor Heather DeShon explains the process by which earthquakes occur in the Azle, Texas, area, during a news conference at the Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas this week. Photograph: Tony Gutierrez/AP  
Associated Press in Los Angeles
Thursday 23 April 2015 10.36 EDT   Last modified on Monday 27 April 2015 05.25 EDT  



"More than a dozen areas in the US have been shaken in recent years by small earthquakes triggered by oil and gas drilling, according to a government report released on Thursday.
The man-made quakes jolted once-stable regions in eight states, including parts of Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma and Texas, according to researchers at the US Geological Survey."

Here's the link to the entire report:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/23/oil-gas-drilling-triggers-man-made-earthquakes-usgs

colaguy wrote:

Wordslinger wrote:

colaguy wrote:From the USGS News Release:

"Many questions have been raised about whether hydraulic fracturing—commonly referred to as “fracking”—is responsible for the recent increase of earthquakes. USGS’s studies suggest that the actual hydraulic fracturing process is only occasionally the direct cause of felt earthquakes."

This doesn't sound like a resounding admittance that fracking causes earthquakes.  

Here's a quote from the report itself. It sounds absolutely certain that fracking causes earthquakes:

Oil and gas drilling triggers man-made earthquakes in eight states, USGS finds

• Oklahoma rocked by more magnitude-3 quakes than California
  
• Wasterwater injection process activates long-dormant faults
  

 
 Professor Heather DeShon explains the process by which earthquakes occur in the Azle, Texas, area, during a news conference at the Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas this week. Photograph: Tony Gutierrez/AP  
Associated Press in Los Angeles
Thursday 23 April 2015 10.36 EDT   Last modified on Monday 27 April 2015 05.25 EDT  



"More than a dozen areas in the US have been shaken in recent years by small earthquakes triggered by oil and gas drilling, according to a government report released on Thursday.
The man-made quakes jolted once-stable regions in eight states, including parts of Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma and Texas, according to researchers at the US Geological Survey."

Here's the link to the entire report:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/23/oil-gas-drilling-triggers-man-made-earthquakes-usgs

There is a difference between a report by the USGS and a news article. The citation you provide is from an article by The Guardian, a left-leaning British newspaper.

The USGS report did not include the information you cited. Its conclusion is that it is difficult to determine whether induced seismic activity (such as fracking) causes earthquakes, and much further study is necessary.


The "real" report:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2015/1070/pdf/ofr2015-1070.pdf

Wordslinger wrote:

colaguy wrote:

Wordslinger wrote:

colaguy wrote:From the USGS News Release:

"Many questions have been raised about whether hydraulic fracturing—commonly referred to as “fracking”—is responsible for the recent increase of earthquakes. USGS’s studies suggest that the actual hydraulic fracturing process is only occasionally the direct cause of felt earthquakes."

This doesn't sound like a resounding admittance that fracking causes earthquakes.  

Here's a quote from the report itself. It sounds absolutely certain that fracking causes earthquakes:

Oil and gas drilling triggers man-made earthquakes in eight states, USGS finds

• Oklahoma rocked by more magnitude-3 quakes than California
  
• Wasterwater injection process activates long-dormant faults
  

 
 Professor Heather DeShon explains the process by which earthquakes occur in the Azle, Texas, area, during a news conference at the Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas this week. Photograph: Tony Gutierrez/AP  
Associated Press in Los Angeles
Thursday 23 April 2015 10.36 EDT   Last modified on Monday 27 April 2015 05.25 EDT  



"More than a dozen areas in the US have been shaken in recent years by small earthquakes triggered by oil and gas drilling, according to a government report released on Thursday.
The man-made quakes jolted once-stable regions in eight states, including parts of Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma and Texas, according to researchers at the US Geological Survey."

Here's the link to the entire report:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/23/oil-gas-drilling-triggers-man-made-earthquakes-usgs

There is a difference between a report by the USGS and a news article. The citation you provide is from an article by The Guardian, a left-leaning British newspaper.

The USGS report did not include the information you cited. Its conclusion is that it is difficult to determine whether induced seismic activity (such as fracking) causes earthquakes, and much further study is necessary.


The "real" report:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2015/1070/pdf/ofr2015-1070.pdf

The link takes us to the same report I quoted.

colaguy wrote:

Wordslinger wrote:

colaguy wrote:

Wordslinger wrote:

colaguy wrote:From the USGS News Release:

"Many questions have been raised about whether hydraulic fracturing—commonly referred to as “fracking”—is responsible for the recent increase of earthquakes. USGS’s studies suggest that the actual hydraulic fracturing process is only occasionally the direct cause of felt earthquakes."

This doesn't sound like a resounding admittance that fracking causes earthquakes.  

Here's a quote from the report itself. It sounds absolutely certain that fracking causes earthquakes:

Oil and gas drilling triggers man-made earthquakes in eight states, USGS finds

• Oklahoma rocked by more magnitude-3 quakes than California
  
• Wasterwater injection process activates long-dormant faults
  

 
 Professor Heather DeShon explains the process by which earthquakes occur in the Azle, Texas, area, during a news conference at the Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas this week. Photograph: Tony Gutierrez/AP  
Associated Press in Los Angeles
Thursday 23 April 2015 10.36 EDT   Last modified on Monday 27 April 2015 05.25 EDT  



"More than a dozen areas in the US have been shaken in recent years by small earthquakes triggered by oil and gas drilling, according to a government report released on Thursday.
The man-made quakes jolted once-stable regions in eight states, including parts of Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma and Texas, according to researchers at the US Geological Survey."

Here's the link to the entire report:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/23/oil-gas-drilling-triggers-man-made-earthquakes-usgs

There is a difference between a report by the USGS and a news article. The citation you provide is from an article by The Guardian, a left-leaning British newspaper.

The USGS report did not include the information you cited. Its conclusion is that it is difficult to determine whether induced seismic activity (such as fracking) causes earthquakes, and much further study is necessary.


The "real" report:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2015/1070/pdf/ofr2015-1070.pdf

The link takes us to the same report I quoted.

It does not.