• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    7 months ago

    Fracking can induce earthquakes.

    Excessive rains following dry periods (like much of the northeast has seen…very dry winter followed by a very, very wet early spring) often causes landslides.

    Is it really that far fetched that heavy rain could, on occasion, lead to quakes?

    Especially considering we have decades old man-made means of dealing with water runoff. Instead of rain water permeating into the soil where it lands, now it gets funneled to one spot.