Updated: More frac quakes! 4.7M (AER lists it as 5.03; 7.1km depth), 4M (1km depth) and many smaller earthquakes hit near Grande Cache, felt in Alberta and BC. Obviously, AER’s and BCER’s Traffic Light “mitigation” system isn’t working.

Think of the methane and deadly sour gas leaking from those endless horizontal well bores repeatedly frac’d and refrac’d, never mind the cumulative damages to those well bores and subsurface caused by repeat frac quakes.

Update March 10, 2015:

More frac/waste injection quakes in area listed by Earthquakes Canada (EC) at link under their main web page map, but not listed under EC’s recent quakes and worse, not by AER either (AER call the area Musreau Lake when they do list quakes there):

2025-03-10 3.9km depth 2.9 SI 72 km SSE of Grande Prairie, AB
2025-03-10 1.0km depth 2.6 SI 60 km NE of Grande Cache, AB
2025-03-09 1.0km depth 3.1 SI 58 km NE of Grande Cache, AB
2025-03-07 5.0km depth 2.8 SI 70 km SSE of Grande Prairie, AB
2025-03-06 6.0km depth 2.8 SI 58 km NE of Grande Cache, AB
2025-03-06 3.5km depth 2.9 SI 62 km SSE of Grande Prairie, AB
2025-03-05 3.2km depth 2.6 SI 68 km NE of Grande Cache, AB
2025-03-03 1.2km depth 2.6 SI 61 km SSE of Grande Prairie, AB
2025-03-02 3.7km depth 3.0 SI 60 km NE of Grande Cache, AB
2025-02-28 3.6km depth 2.9 SI 56 km S of Grande Prairie, AB
2025-02-26 1.0km depth 2.4 SI 36 km S of Grande Prairie, AB
2025-02-26 1.0km depth 2.4 SI 51 km S of Grande Prairie, AB
2025-02-25 1.0km depth 2.4 SI 54 km NE of Grande Cache, AB
2025-02-24 1.0km depth 3.9 SI 69 km NE of Grande Cache, AB

Data below of some of the area quakes from AER’s earthquake dashboard (which moves terribly slowly):

SI = Suspected Induced

KI = Known Induced

Many more quakes since the big 5.03 on Feb 20. Either Danielle Smith’s pal she plunked onto the AER did not shut down the frac’er as required under the traffic light system, or, they were shut down, but the frac quakes continued.

This grouping of quakes immediately below was added to AER’s dashboard on March 10, 2025. I do not see how AER can appropriately or responsibly regulate frac quakes, keep Albertans safe and implement their stoplight con system if they are ten days behind assessing and posting quakes, notably with EC quakes that require action:

01 Mar 2025 5km depth 1.54 SI 6 km NNE of Musreau Lake AB
01 Mar 2025 4km depth 1.56 KI 23 km S of Musreau Lake AB
01 Mar 2025 7km depth 1.44 KI 24 km S of Musreau Lake AB
28 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.16 KI 26 km of Musreau Lake AB
28 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.02 KI 27 km of Musreau Lake AB
28 Feb 2025 7km depth 1.31 KI 24 km S of Musreau Lake AB
28 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.2 KI 22 km S of Musreau Lake AB
28 Feb 2025 6km depth 2.14 KI 24 km NNW of Musreau Lake AB
28 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.58 KI 24 km S of Musreau Lake AB
27 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.68 KI 23 km SSE of Musreau Lake AB
27 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.64 KI 24 km S of Musreau Lake AB
27 Feb 2025 5km depth 1.37 KI 30 km S of Musreau Lake AB
26 Feb 2025 5km depth 1.31 KI 23 km S of Musreau Lake AB
26 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.3 KI 21 km S of Musreau Lake AB
26 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.93 KI 20 km of Musreau Lake AB
25 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.19 KI 22 km S of Musreau Lake AB
25 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.25 KI 24 km SSE of Musreau Lake AB
25 Feb 2025 5km depth 1.61 KI 27 km SSE of Musreau Lake AB
25 Feb 2025 7km depth 1.43 KI 25 km S of Musreau Lake AB
25 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.12 KI 26 km S of Musreau Lake AB
25 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.67 KI 25 km SSE of Musreau Lake AB
25 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.29 KI 26 km SSE of Musreau Lake AB
25 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.68 KI 24 km S of Musreau Lake AB
24 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.31 KI 22 km SSE of Musreau Lake AB
24 Feb 2025 5km depth 1.46 KI 25 km S of Musreau Lake AB
24 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.04 KI 27 km SSE of Musreau Lake AB
24 Feb 2025 8km depth 1.0 KI 25 km SSE of Musreau Lake AB
24 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.0 KI 27 km SSE of Musreau Lake AB
24 Feb 2025 9km depth 3.44 KI 27 km SSE of Musreau Lake AB
24 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.02 SI 10 km N of Musreau Lake AB
24 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.01 SI 11 km N of Musreau Lake AB
24 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.51 KI 26 km SSE of Musreau Lake AB

23 Feb 2025 5km depth 2.39 KI 26 km SSE of Musreau Lake AB

23 Feb 2025 7km depth 1.55 KI  24 km SSE of Musreau Lake AB

23 Feb 2025 5km depth 1.68 KI   5 km E of Musreau Lake AB

23 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.32 KI   22 km S of Musreau Lake AB

23 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.3   KI   24 km S of Musreau Lake AB

23 Feb 2025 3km depth 1.38 KI   22 km SSE of Musreau Lake AB

22 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.01 SI   9 km N of Musreau Lake AB

22 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.11 KI   24 km S of Musreau Lake AB

22 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.49 KI   20 km S of Musreau Lake AB

22 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.32 KI   23 km S of Musreau Lake AB

22 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.06 KI   19 km S of Musreau Lake AB

22 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.61 KI   23 km S of Musreau Lake AB

21 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.56 KI   26 km SSE of Musreau Lake AB

21 Feb 2025 9km depth 1.76 KI   24 km SSE of Musreau Lake AB

21 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.23 KI   24 km S of Musreau Lake AB

21 Feb 2025 11km depth 1.82 KI 23 km SSE of Musreau Lake AB

21 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.2 KI     23 km S of Musreau Lake AB

21 Feb 202  12km depth 1.74 KI  24 km SSE of Musreau Lake AB

21 Feb 2025 6km depth  1.25 KI  25 km S of Musreau Lake AB

20 Feb 2025 8km depth  3.59 KI  25 km SSE of Musreau Lake AB

20 Feb 2025 4km depth  2.4  KI   25 km SE of Musreau Lake AB

20 Feb 2025 5km depth 2.65 KI   24 km S of Musreau Lake AB

20 Feb 2025 5km depth 2.11 KI   24 km SSE of Musreau Lake AB

20 Feb 2025 8km depth 2.54 KI  24 km SSE of Musreau Lake AB

20 Feb 2025 7km depth 3.03 KI  25 km S of Musreau Lake AB

20 Feb 2025 7km depth 1.84 KI  23 km S of Musreau Lake AB

20 Feb 2025 5km depth 5.03 SI 24 km S of Musreau Lake AB * THE BIG ONE *

17 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.16 KI 26 km SSE of Musreau Lake AB

17 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.34 KI 25 km SSE of Musreau Lake AB

17 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.14 KI 27 km SSE of Musreau Lake AB

17 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.19 KI 26 km SSE of Musreau Lake AB

16 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.14 KI 24 km SSE of Musreau Lake AB

16 Feb 2025 4km depth 1.34 KI 23 km S of Musreau Lake AB

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13 Feb 2025 8km depth 3.01 KI 25 km SSE of Musreau Lake AB

13 Feb 2025 8km depth 2.65 KI 28 km SSE of Musreau Lake AB

13 Feb 2025 5km depth 2.72 KI 9 km N of Musreau Lake AB

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12 Feb 2025 5km depth 2.79 KI 437629 11 km NNE of Musreau Lake AB

12 Feb 2025 7km depth 2.56 KI 25 km NNW of Musreau Lake AB

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11 Feb 2025 7km depth 3.11 KI 25 km SSE of Musreau Lake AB

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02 Feb 2025 4km depth 2.27 KI 25 km SSE of Musreau Lake AB

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etc etc etc etc many more pages of known induced quakes where heavy frac’ing is ongoing in the area of these reported fracquakes in the Musreau Lake/Grande Cache area.

Recent Significant Earthquake Reports by Earthquakes Canada

• 2025-02-20: M=4.0 – 63 km NE of Grande Cache, AB – suspected Industry-related event

Depth 1km; 5 felt reports as of 2:40pm Feb 22

• 2025-02-20: M=4.7 – 62 km NE of Grande Cache, AB – felt

Depth 7.1km; 216 felt reports as of 2:40pm Feb 22

STOP Frac’in images above by Barb Ryan, resident living in heavily frac’d Fox Creek, Alberta

Earthquake shakes parts of B.C. and Alberta, cause being investigated, Quake was felt in Prince George, B.C. and Grande Prairie, Edson and Whitecourt, Alta by Andrew Kurjata, CBC News, Feb 20, 2025

… Earthquakes Canada seismologist Tammy Mulder said she suspects the quake to be induced, caused by hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) activity in the area. The Alberta Energy Regulator says it is investigating whether that is the case. …

‘Felt a lot of movement’: 4.7 magnitude earthquake rocks northern Alberta by Jason Hills, Feb 20, 2025, msn

Officials say a 4.7 magnitude earthquake recorded south of Grande Prairie on Thursday morning was felt in other areas of the province including Grande Cache, Hinton, Jasper, Whitecourt, and as far away as Prince George, B.C.

Recorded at 8:41 a.m., the quake was initially tracked as a 5.2 magnitude earthquake, but officials from Natural Resouces Canada later downgraded it to a 4.7 Thursday afternoon.

The main area of the earthquake was between Grande Prairie and Grande Cache, and was approximately 7.1 km deep, according to Natural Resources Canada.

“I haven’t had any reports of damage as of yet,” Taimi Mulder, earthquake seismologist with Natural Resources Canada, located at the Pacific Geoscience Centre in Sidney, B.C.

“People have certainly felt the earthquake, and they’ve reported chandeliers shaking and other things shaking, but most people reported they were sitting down and they felt a lot of movement”

Mulder said the earthquake likely lasted just one or two seconds, and the movement can be described as “short and sharp.”

Mulder said that events like hydraulic fracturing, otherwise known as “fracking,” can cause earthquakes to occur, and the province has seen more earthquakes occurring with the oil and gas industry more prominent in the province over the last two decades.

This was the second earthquake reported in a similar area in the last few months. Last October a 4.5 magnitude earthquake was recorded in the Grande Prairie region.

Mulder doesn’t feel like Alberta is in line to see an increase in earthquakes, and the ones that do occur shouldn’t reach large magnitudes that could cause serious damage.It’s behind shameful Canadian quake authorities inappropriately and irresponsibly downplay the risks. Frac quake researchers have warned for years that more and more frac’ing causes bigger and bigger quakes leading to more and more damages and increased risks to life, groundwater and homes and vital public infrastructure like Site C Dam. Heavily frac’d areas, notably in China, Agentina, the USA and Canada are experiencing precisely what has been warned. Canadian frac fields are not exempt from deadly devastating earthquake damages.

“Since fracking has picked up over the years in Alberta, earthquakes can be associated with those. Typically there are few tectonic earthquakes over the years in Alberta,” said Mulder.

“That’s the domain of the Alberta Energy Regulator is to work with industry to keep these sorts of effects to a minimum. I wouldn’t expect anything too much larger than what we just saw.”No way, would I down play the serious risks caused by frac quakes, and AER and BCER’s stupid red light system is useless at preventing the harms and damages because mitigation only happens after the quakes and not immediately, and even when frac jobs are shut down because of causing quakes larger than 4M like these today, more frac’s usually follow.

Mulder recommends that anyone experiencing an earthquake should practice the duck, cover and hold-on method to avoid injury.

“You go and dive underneath a table or under your desk, anything that is available that is firm and steady so that if things should fall off shelves, or there is any structural damage to a building, if you’re experiencing a very large earthquake, that it doesn’t fall on your head and injure you,” said Mulder.

“You need to hold on, just in case that table or object you’re underneath, you don’t want it to shake away from you. This is a muscle memory action, so even if there is light shaking, and people don’t think it’s going to be much larger, I would advocate practising that response, just in case you’re in an earthquake unfortunate enough to be living in a fraczone.”

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AER visual for their useless frac quake stoplight mitigation system which only gets turned on after quakes happen, ensuring mitigation is too late. So stupid. I believe it’s just another industry self regulatory trick to con concerned residents living in danger in frac zones to think their lives and those of their loved ones are protected.

4.7 magnitude earthquake rattles parts of Alberta by Laine Mitchell, Feb 20 2025, DH News

A 4.7 magnitude earthquake struck northern Alberta Thursday morning, with no record of it causing damage.

Earthquakes Canada added that the quake struck at 8:41 this morning as a “suspected industry-related event.”

Earthquakes Canada

Earthquakes Canada added that it was lightly felt in Edson, Grande Prairie, Jasper, Hinton, Whitecourt, and Prince George, B.C.

A flurry of smaller quakes was also recorded, including a 2.3, 2.4, and a 3.5 magnitude, all categorized as “suspected industry-related” events.

Some people in Edmonton took to social media to report that they felt an earthquake Thursday morning.

“I felt it a bit in Edmonton. Very mild,” wrote one Reddit user, while another stated “Just felt a tremor and saw some things sway here in south Edmonton.”

Alberta is no stranger to earthquakes, including a 5.8 magnitude earthquake back in November 2022 and 5.0 magnitude in March 2023.

5.2 magnitude earthquake rocks Peace Region Thursday morning by by Erika Rolling, Feb 20, 2025, RdnewsNOW

Earthquakes Canada is reporting a seismic event occurred at approximately 8:41 a.m., on Thursday February 20, 2025.

The earthquake shook at a magnitude of 5.2, stemming 63km NE of Grande Cache. It came from 8.5 km within the earth.

People in Edson, Grande Prairie, Whitecourt, and even Prince George, B.C. have reported it being felt.

There has been no reports of damages so far.

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Did you feel the earthquake? Let Earthquakes Canada know by clicking here.

(With files from The Canadian Press)

Did you feel it? No damages reported after earthquake shakes parts of Alberta, B.C. by Staff The Canadian Press, February 20, 2025, Global News

Federal government agency Earthquakes Canada says some Alberta and B.C. residents may have felt the ground shake Thursday morning.

A 5.2 magnitude earthquake was detected roughly 63 kilometres northeast of Grande Cache, Alta., but it isn’t believed to have caused any damage.

The agency said the quake would have been lightly felt in the surrounding communities of Edson, Grand Prairie and Whitecourt, as well as in Prince George, B.C.

Its magnitude scale says quakes between 3.5 and 5.4 are “often felt, but rarely cause damage.”Minimizing the harms, just like genocidiares. Numerous small frac quakes in Canada and Argentina, and even smaller in the UK, have caused significant damages to well bores, many homes, driveways, water wells and more. Shame on the fucking frac quake minimizing douches at Earthquakes Canada, BCER, AER and industry.

A 3.6 magnitude earthquake last week in B.C. shook the ground in Victoria, Sidney and parts of Vancouver Island.

Alberta’s most recent earthquake was a 3.7 magnitude rumble last month that was felt in Lake Louise and Banff.

Refer also to:

2024: Secure Energy (frac?) waste disposal thought to have caused shallow 4.5M earthquake 31km south of Grand Prairie, felt widely in AB and even in McBride BC.

2024: Texas Miracle in the Permian, Frac Greed causing $Billions in damages: Satellite data reveal impacts to surface (11 inches subsidence since 2015 where frac’ers take out water and oil; 5 inches lift where wastewater injected); earthquakes greater than 2.5M jumped from 42 in 2017 to 671 in 2022; pressure increases; erupting wastewater not staying injected destroying farm land; contaminated groundwater … The greedy frac sods have no answers or fixes. “You punch enough holes in it, the whole country’s going to fall apart”

2024: Frac’ing Brazeau Dam, Alberta? 4.1M “very shallow” (1km depth) earthquake on July 24, 2024 (felt in Quesnel BC, 423.9km W of epicenter); Aug 10, more than two weeks later, still not listed on “World-Class” AER’s Earthquake Dashboard.

2024: 4.8M earthquake at Fox Creek, Frac Central Alberta, 3km depth. Many felt reports including six in Calgary and one 700 km away. Who is the frac’er and did they stop frac’ing? If not, will AER order them to stop or will Danielle Smith’s stooges on the board let the harms continue?

2024: Nearly a year after AER orders Obsidian Energy to come up with a plan *in 15 days* to mitigate its massive earthquakes, the company reportedly still refuses to address Woodland Cree First Nation’s concerns or meet with them. Where’s the self-regulator? Oh right, Obsidian regulates itself, does what it wants, impacted neighbours be damned.

2024: Frac quakes “menacing Argentina” and Indigenous families in their homes as officials and companies lie, deny, delay, keep secrets, lie, deny, delay, start collecting data years after baseline conditions are obliterated to establish “baseline” conditions and commit to committing to planning a plan (to blame nature) for the endless harms just like in Canada and USA, “Yep, the same shit all over again with greater force.” Oh so natural.

2024: Two more frac quakes: 4.0M near Ft St John, BC, 1.5km shallow with 10 felt reports; 4.1M near Frac Central Fox Creek, AB, 5km shallow with 2 felt reports. Will AER’s pathetic lights come on?

2024: Woodland Cree First Nations (WCFN) oppose more frac’ing and cumulative harms by Obsidian Energy (caused 5.6M frac quake in 2022, biggest in Alberta history). Of course Genocidal Canadian courts order injunction against WCFN to get out of the way of corporate profit-raping.

2024: Frac’d to Hell NE BC (home of Site C Dam knowingly built on ground prone to slumping): Experts track a “Tremorous Trend” of increasing earthquakes as frac’s cumulatively grow in number, amount of water injected and pressures used. 4.2M frac quake strongly felt by many residents (contrary to officials insisting for years that industry’s quakes are not felt).

2023: Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS): Fossil fuel industry and enablers pick perfect bend over liar at Geological Survey of Canada: Honn Kao. Not only can CO2 injection cause earthquakes, it won’t stay put, busts caprock, shoots to surface, pollutes ground water, migrates into and contaminates petroleum wells, kills, impairs cognitive function, harms families and communities

2023: Another AER agent not to trust: Industry rep at AGS, Rebecca Salvage, quickly blamed nature for 5.6M biggest (industry induced) earthquake in Alberta’s history; includes snide “comments” and big winded promises by Obsidian, quake-maker

2023: Gong Show! Oil and gas industry self-regulator, AER, after blaming nature, “regulates” Obsidian Energy *only* because researchers make their study public on the 2022 damaging, record-breaking 5.6M industry-induced earthquake at Peace River, and media, including Tyee, reported on it. Corrupt AER cowards led by just another scandal-ridden old white “dickhead.” Obsidian shares fell 4% by morning.

2023: New Standford study confirms Tyee investigation: Tarsands high pressure injections near Peace River most likely caused 2022 5.6M earthquake (largest in Alberta so far) and others, felt as far away as Edmonton; More quakes (4.6 to 5) in 2023, also felt in Edmonton. AER, industry’s self regulator, as usual, blames nature.

2022: West Texas Permian frac field: 5.4M earthquake, 6.9km depth “likely caused by oil and gas industry activity.” Felt in Fort Davis in the mountains and as far away as State of Ohio! Even after industry reduces injection, frac quakes get bigger and bigger and bigger …

2021: Peace Region NEBC Canada, New Study: Cumulative frac development and earthquakes: Warning by Allan Chapman: Bigger frac quakes coming, may kill and destroy; Pathetic 100% industry funded and controlled OGC enabling the horrific frac harms like AER, as usual.

2021: Plan to make communities accept frac quakes damaging heart, home, wellbores and aquifers with **excitement**? “Start out with some level of risk – such as a 50 percent chance of 30 households experiencing shaking that feels exciting but not frightening”

2021: Alberta Cover-up Capital: Frac’ing near 5.0M earthquake 31km WNW of Rocky Mountain House; AER reported nothing about that or waste injection, just said industry didn’t do it.

2020: “A shallow shock.” New study on “extremely shallow” 4.9M, 1km depth frac quake in China in 2019 that killed 2, injured 12, caused $2 Million U.S. in damages, including to numerous homes.

2020: 4.0M earthquake 31 km SE of High Prairie, Alberta; 10 felt reports, NRC says none. Tweet: “That’s a weird place for a quake.” Tweet: “Probably not with all the fracking that goes on in the area.”

2020: Scrubbadubbadub! Happy Frac’ing Holidays! Two earthquakes west of Alberta’s Fox Creek Frac Hub: 4.0M on Dec 25; 4.1M on Dec 30. Like a coronavirus, it spreads. Earthquakes Canada already scrubbed the 4.1M; nothing reported in the media or by AER, again.

2020: Alberta: AGS confirms frac’ing caused 4.18M earthquake that rattled many homes from Sylvan Lake to Red Deer last March, knocked out power to 4,600 customers, and caused subsequent 3.13M and smaller cluster of quakes. “Complaints of damage from the event were received.” And a water well was damaged by frac’ing near Sylvan.

2020: New study: NE BC, Dawson-Septimus area in Peace region (where Vicky Simlik lives frac’d by Encana/Ovintiv et al) hit with about 1,500 frac quakes annually

2020: Landowner Vicky Simlik: Living frac’d in Farmington, NE BC. They frac you again, and again, and again, and again. The frac quakes harm you & your home again, and again, and again.

Photos above showing the Encana/Ovintiv frac quake harms caused to Simlik’s home in NEBC

2019: UK: Cuadrilla moving out! “Frack Free Lancashire is delighted to learn that 35 days after they caused a 2.9ML earthquake which shook the Fylde and the confidence of their investors, Cuadrilla are finally demobilising…. The seismic activity which they provoked has not stopped though, with the 133rd event being recorded on Saturday, five weeks after they last fracked.”

2019: Scientific American: Even if Injection of Frac Wastewater Stops, Quakes Won’t; Oklahoma’s state seismologist, Jacob Walter: 900 fold increase in earthquakes in past decade of oil & gas frac boom is “unprecedented in human history”

2019: UK, Blackpool: Cuadrilla’s quakes won’t stop even though work ordered stopped. Bigger quake, 2.9M, damages countless homes, 450 residents protest, demand frac ban. Company’s earthquakes keep getting bigger: 2.1M quake, felt by residents, days after previous record set at 1.6M, also felt by residents. Cuadrilla had promised it would keep quakes below 0.5M

2019: Another frac ‘n gag to cover up frac damages? Cuadrilla signs non-disclosure agreement with UK’s national earthquake monitoring agency, British Geological Survey, to ‘destroy confidential documents’ and release operational data only at company’s request

2019: Lancashire frac’ing: 1.6M earthquake stops Cuadrilla’s work “This is a serious issue and we know that seismic activity at similar levels deformed the well bore at Preese Hall, which Cuadrilla failed to report to the relevant authorities for six months.”

2019: 4.1M earthquake hits near Esterhazy, Saskatchewan, “rattling homes.” Power out for Esterhazy, Whitewood, Moosomin, Rockanville, Wapella, Tantallon for 2.5 hours. “My mother’s rocking chair started rocking.” Children screamed and cried, “It was scary.” Earthquakes Canada reports it “lightly felt.” Numerous new “undefined” directional wells drilled in area.

2019: Lancashire UK: More frac failures plague Cuadrilla, company tries but fails to seal the well and caused 57 earthquakes. How much methane is migrating into aquifers and homes? “We have little confidence in Cuadrilla’s technical abilities….”

2019: Encana Earthquake Implications

2019: Oklahoma citizens with property in nine central counties (about 400 homes and some businesses) that suffered damage from 2011 earthquakes caused by oil industry waste injection gain class-action status

2019: UK: Oil company says (who believes oil companies these days?) “We’re not to blame for Surrey earthquake” – but local concerns remain

2019: Heavily frac’d Colorado seeing earthquakes where they’ve never happened before. “Big booms, roars and shaking homes.”

2019: Competing with Alberta? Large 4.6 Magnitude Earthquake Recorded In Garfield County, Oklahoma, Felt across wide area in the state

2019: Earthquake felt Sunday morning (March 10) near Rocky Mountain House, Alta., Excellent well-researched comments by Diana Daunheimer, Alberta farmer and mother of two

2019: Terrifying! Injected oilfield wastewater may trigger earthquakes for ‘decades.’ More terrifying: Percentage of high-magnitude quakes felt at the surface increases with depth of waste injected & may create greater magnitude quakes years after injection rates decline or stop.

2019: Canada’s Duvernay oil play attracting big attention, big money and a big damaging earthquake, knocking power out to thousands

2019: What the Frac Hell is going on in Canada! 3.9M earthquake west of Frac’d Crazy Fox Creek Alberta reported by Earthquakes Canada, 1 km depth, now scrubbed from their website!

2019: AER orders Vesta Energy to suspend frac operations at well site linked to 4.6M earthquake in Central Alberta

2019: 4.6M earthquake, 1 km in depth, most powerful yet in central Alberta, hits SW of Red Deer, cracks walls in homes, knocks power out to thousands. Vesta Energy reports quake to AER, shuts down frac’ing. AER investigating. Geological Survey of Canada says looks like fra’cing didn’t do it.

2018: “yep they get the gold, we get the shaft.” Dam collapses at one of Australia’s largest gold mines after 2.7M earthquake 2 km away. Imagine BC’s foolish, high risk Site C dam surrounded by frac’ing causing much stronger earthquakes!

2018: Gail Atkinson, earthquake expert: Low-volume fracking found still dangerous; Dutch Court Orders NAM to Immediately Compensate Homeowners in Frac Quake Damages Zone in Groningen for Depreciation even if Homes Not Sold. Will the Corporate Giant Heed the Court? Most Likely Not.

2017: UPDATED WITH MORE QUAKES, Fox Creek, Alberta Frac Quakes start up again; New Study by Standford Scientists: Small earthquakes at frac sites may be early indicators of bigger quakes to come; Surprising Finding: Arkansas earthquakes mostly caused by hydraulic fracturing, only some by wastewater injection, None caused by trucks

2017: Another frac harm lawsuit gags: Settlement reached between two Oklahoma oil and gas companies and Prague resident Sandra Ladra injured in 2011 earthquake

2017: Oklahoma: Pawnee Nation’s $400,000 Earthquake Damages Case Moves Forward

2017: Oklahoma seismologist, Austin Holland, scolded by fracked academia (the dean!) for linking earthquake swarms to powerful oil and gas industry

2017: 4.2M earthquake rattles Oklahoma state-wide, Felt also in western Arkansas & Wichita, Kansas, Numerous aftershocks. Mitigation obviously not working. Waste disposal in the Area of Interest had previously been sharply reduced, with no new drilling or fracking

2017: Dutch Quakes Rattle NAM (Exxon, Shell partnership); Judges in Assen rule that NAM is liable for Groningen earthquake victims’ stress

2017: Texas: New Study by TAMEST, State’s Top Scientists (mostly industry supporters, so findings especially damning): Drilling in Shale causes pollution, earthquakes, billions in road damages annually, billions in trucking industry damages annually, 75% increase in rural crashes involving commercial vehicles. Health & Climate Change Impacts Not Assessed. Why Not? Too terrible?

2017: Fortify? Globe and Mail: Study fortifies link between fracking and earthquakes in British Columbia

2017: Ohio: Fracking Suspended Near Wayne National Forest After 3.0M Earthquake. UK suspends fracking when it creates 0.5M earthquakes, Alberta & BC at 4.0M

2017: Pawnee Nation Sues 27 Oklahoma Oil Companies in Tribal Court Over Earthquake Damage

2017: Pennsylvania Regulator links earthquakes directly to fracking

2017: Pawnee Oklahoma’s 5.8M earthquake caused river to rise. Not just waste injection causing earthquakes in Oklahoma, frac’ing causing them too, like in BC & Alberta

2016: “Devastating Domino Effect?” 5.0M Earthquake Causes “Substantial Damages” to 40-50 Buildings in Downtown Cushing, Rattles Residents Across State; Felt as far away as Johnson City, TN, 1297 km away

2016: USGS Study: Oil drilling may have caused 1933 California 6.4M Long Beach earthquake that killed about 120 people and caused massive damages. “There may be no upper limit” to the size of earthquakes caused by the oil industry

2016: USGS links Oklahoma’s 5.1M (third largest) earthquake to oil-field disposal wells more than 7 miles away

2016: It’s Official: Kansas’ Biggest Earthquake, 4.9M in 2014, Caused by Frac Wastewater Injection

2016: September 25 – October 1, 2016: Andrew Nikiforuk’s Nova Scotia Slick Water Speaking Tour: “The Legacy of Fracking: From Earthquakes to Jessica Ernst”

2016: Record Breaking 5.8M Oklahoma Earthquake May Mean More Class Action Litigation Involving Hydraulic Fracturing

2016: Spencer, Oklahoma: 3.8M earthquake felt by 1,300 people up to 928 km away. Question for NEB’s Darin Barter (previously synergizing enabler at AER): When trucks drive by, are they felt 900 km away?

2016: 3.8M earthquake location changed from Yorkton to Esterhazy, Saskatchewan; Numerous injection wells there. Caused two hour power outage for several communities. Unbelievable quote by seismologist Dr. Honn Kao, Geological Survey of Canada: “Man-made activity will not cause this kind of magnitude event unless it’s nuclear explosion”

2016: Pawnee earthquake upgraded to magnitude 5.8 from 5.6; 2011 earthquake near Prague upgraded to 5.7 from 5.6

2016: 5.6M (originally reported as 5.8) Pawnee Oklahoma Earthquake Officially Largest In State History with Many “Felt” Aftershocks; USGS might upgrade it to 5.7M

2016: Anticosti fracking could cause earthquakes, says Maurice Lamontagne, Geological Survey of Canada seismologist; U.S. Midwest, Alberta, British Columbia enduring earthquakes due to ‘human activity’

2016: Another 5.6M Earthquake Hits Frac Ravaged Oklahoma: Mitigation Obviously Not Working! Quakes Increasing, No Matter How Many Injection Wells Shut Down or Injection Volumes Reduced. State Of Emergency Declared for Pawnee County. 58,628 people felt the quake, as far as 2,323 km away in Boston, MA

2016: New news or old? Frac’ing, not waste injection, causing earthquakes in Western Canada. Diana Daunheimer calls out U of Calgary’s David Eaton: “So why are you getting the details on this issue so very wrong Mr. Eaton?”

2016: Frac Waste Quakes Make Time Magazine: The U.S.’s New Earthquake Capital: Oklahoma. “Some seismologists say that even if all disposal activity stopped in the state immediately, there could be earthquakes for decades.”

2016: Twitchy in Illinois? Letter: Earthquake myth by Seth Whitehead, Illinois Petroleum Resources Board. Do you care if frac quakes or frac waste or waste water quakes shake your home unsafe?

2016: Listen To The Quakes & The Many, Not The Money. 2013: “These fluids are driving faults to their tipping point.” Is this what frac’d communities have to look forward to? 2016: 7.1M earthquake

2016: January 28, 2016, Vancouver: Nikiforuk presents the human face of fracing. When will we reach the tipping point with fracking? “Fracking is earthquake-making activity”

2016: Canada breaking frac quake records: Geosciences professor thinks earthquakes near Fox Creek are clearly linked to fracking

2016: Edmonton’s 630CHED Jespersen Show Interviews Jessica Ernst on her Supreme Court of Canada Hearing vs AER & Dr. Jeffrey Gu on the 4.8M Earthquake at Fox Creek, Alberta (day of Ernst’s Supreme Court Hearing)

2016: NINE STUDIES: US Geological Survey (USGS), University Colorado (UC), Oklahoma Geological Survey (OGS), Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory (LBNL) studied sudden man-made earthquakes in Oklahoma, California, Pennsylvania, Ohio, found fracing is the causation

2015: Canadian Geophysicist Dr. Gail Atkinson: Provinces must do more to prevent fracking-induced earthquakes

2015: Netherlands court orders more cuts in gas production after stronger and more frequent earthquakes continue

2015: Cushing, Oklahoma: 4.5M earthquake ignores newly imposed frac quake prevention rules

2015: Since frac’ing, earthquakes now frequent near Fort St. John

2015: Fox Creek: Yet another earthquake in AER’s deregulated blanket approval frac experiment. Fracking-Related Earthquakes Could Ding Credit Quality

2015: MUST READ Special Report by Andrew Nikiforuk: Fracking Industry Has Changed Earthquake Patterns in Northeast BC, Impact on groundwater and migrating gases mostly unknown

2015: AER Frac Pilot Project: Earthquakes, tax increases, water restrictions, double homicide, spills and accidents shake Alberta town’s faith in fracking; Aging sour facilities in deregulated Fox Creek a big worry for council; AER’s FracQuake Red Light stops Chevron only 16 days; Families moving out

2015: Oil companies can be sued by earthquake victim in 7-0 Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling, Oklahoma has been hit by a dramatic spike in earthquakes in last 5 years

2015: University of Alberta Prof Jeff Gu: The magnitudes of fracing caused earthquakes seem to be getting larger

2015: Chevron reported 3.6 magnitude event; Shut down by AER. Is the AER’s Frac Quake Stop Light System Irrelevant? Another 4.4 Magnitude Earthquake at Fox Creek

2015: Dutch Court Suspends Gas Production on earthquake fears; Pennsylvania Insurance Dept Issues Quake Notice: Fracking Exclusion Not Allowed, “Endorsements that attach to homeowners insurance policies in this Commonwealth should cover all earthquakes, whether believed to be ‘naturally occurring’ or caused by ‘human activity’”

2015: Oklahoma, Noble County 5.1 magnitude earthquake, OGS and USGS reported it as 4.2: “What are they up to? Do they really believe they can hide a 5.1 magnitude earthquake from us?”

2015: Oklahoma Supreme Court will soon rule on case that could hold oil and gas companies liable for earthquake-related damage

2015: Oil & gas execs ‘pressured’ Oklahoma geologists not to reveal fracking-quakes link; Industry Pressure Kept Oklahoma’s Scientists Silent on Earthquake-Fracking Link Since 2010: Report

2015: Oklahoma Insurance commissioner clarifies “man-made” earthquake policies: 92% of earthquake claims denied by insurers, “Until a legal ruling is made, it is generally assumed that the earthquakes are not man-made”

2015: Eight Industry Leaders to Present at Catastrophe Response Unit Seminar for “all insurance claims management, adjusters and industry personnel” includes feature presentation: “Fracking Induced Earthquakes”.

2015: After whopping 4.1 earthquake, Oklahoma regulators were finally fracking fed up, ordered injection well shut down; In Alberta, after 4.4 global frac quake record and aftershocks, it’s “No Duty of Care” frac as usual, harms be damned

2015: Fracking Quakes Pose Added Risks but Oil and Gas Companies Refuse to Share their Collected Seismic Data. “In low seismic environments like Fox Creek where the natural earthquakes are infrequent, the hazards from an induced seismic event can exceed the hazards from a natural source”

2015: Did Alberta Just Break a Fracking Earthquake World Record with 4.4 Temblor at Fox Creek? Sounds of Silence: The Crooked Lake Earthquakes

2015: American Insurance Industry Adjusts to Earthquake Risk Caused by Fracking

2015: New BC OGC Report: From August 2013 to October 2014 Fracking directly caused 193 earthquakes (11 felt on surface), 38 more caused by waste injection, in Montney basin area surrounding Dawson Creek and Ft St John

2015: Alberta frack operation near Devon shattered home window; No wonder Edmonton-area residents are protesting fracing near their homes

2014: Alberta Energy Regulator still won’t admit the truth: Hydraulic fracturing directly causes earthquakes

2014: Keiser Report: Earthquakes caused by fracing, Interview with Tina Louise from Blackpool UK

2014: New Cornell Study: Because of fracing, Oklahoma now has three times more earthquakes than California; Number of potentially damaging earthquakes – magnitude 3.0 or larger – up more than 120 percent

2014: International panel of geoscientists concluded pair of deadly earthquakes that struck Italian region of Emilia-Romagna in 2012 could have been triggered by petroleum extraction

2014: Goldenkey CFO regarding Lethbridge Penny Project: “We’ve heard many things and we may give up this one” and suggested frac waste water injection nothing to worry about even though it has been proven to cause damaging earthquakes

2014: Oklahoma wonders why earthquakes are dramatically increasing: Is oil and gas drilling and fracking to blame?

2014: Swarms of Earthquakes Shake Up Shale Gas Fields, Do tremors plaguing industry in Texas, Holland, and beyond offer a glimpse of BC’s future?

2014: Azle, Texas Sues over Earthquakes caused by Fracking

2014: Netherlands: Friesland wants to be compensated for damages caused by drilling; Nearly $2 billion property damages in Groningen from gas drilling induced earthquakes

2013: Big oil, big fracing, big problems? The Hawkwoods frac’d in the Lochend: health problems, dead cattle and earthquakes causing property damage

2013: Spain Suffers from Hundreds of Earthquakes Caused by Offshore Drilling; Largest is Magnitude 4.2; Citizens Complain of Cracks and Tremors Whipping Their Homes

2013: UK Prime Minister David Cameron: ‘UK fracking will be safe’ – ‘There is no question of having earthquakes and fire coming out of taps’

2013: Lawsuit: Quakes caused by frack water disposal damaged homes, Two Alvarado homeowners are suing several energy companies saying they induced earthquakes that damaged their homes

2013: USGS to make separate risk map for man-made quakes; National Research Council excludes 272 frac-caused quakes in BC’s Horn River Basin off global map

2012: New voluntary CAPP guidelines to monitor, respond to earthquakes caused by fracking

2012: Earthquake threats won’t stall fracking in B.C., industry officials say

USGS to make separate risk map for man-made quakes; National Research Council excludes 272 frac-caused quakes in BC’s Horn River Basin off global map

2012: The Geological Society, The Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain Submission to DECC Consultation: Preece Hall Shale Gas Fracturing – Review & Recommendations for Induced Seismic Mitigation

2012: Investigation of Observed Seismicity in the Horn River Basin

Slide from Ernst presentations

2011: USGS scientist: ‘We’re only starting to learn’ about fracking, fluid injection, earthquakes

2000: Seismicity in the Oil Field

… Even minor actions can trigger strong seismicity.