FEBRUARY 1, 2013 | 11:03 AM
BY TERRENCE HENRY
If you live in the East Texas town of Timpson, (click here) or nearby, chances are you’ve had a shaky week. It all started last...
Friday, very early in the morning, when an earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale struck just north of town, causing minor damage. Then on...
Tuesday, again, very early in the morning, a smaller 2.8 quake struck. Then...
yesterday afternoon another quake occurred, just south of town, with a strength of 2.7. That’s three earthquakes within a week.
So what’s going on? We put that question to Dr. Cliff Frohlich, a seismologist that studies manmade earthquakes at the University of Texas at Austin. Yes, manmade.
Frohlich has looked into a string of quakes in the Dallas-Fort Worth area that began in 2008. Frohlich has linked many of those quakes to deep injection wells used to dispose of wastewater from oil and gas drilling, which has taken off in recent years with the advent of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling. ...
