I am an expert, and I link this earthquake to the extraordinary amount of glazed and creme filled chocolate donuts Michael Moore eats every day.

"I can't prove that that's what happened, but it's a plausible explanation."

Yet, no relationship between "experts" and actual facts.

They made a documentary a few months ago and this is just the Earth spontaneously responding to the video. This area has had earthquakes before any fracking ever took place. And even if it is linked, that's a good thing. It's better to release pressure gradually, than one large release like the Madrid fault.

This explains Dan Rather, then also.

Article tries to link the earthquakes to fracking by siting one "scientist" who states "I can't prove that that's what happened, but it's a plausible explanation.", and another who states that "Most, if not all, geophysicists expect induced earthquakes to be more likely from wastewater injection rather than hydrofracking".

So in other words, there is absolutely no evidence that fracking had anything to do with the earthquakes.

Oh nuts!

That's mother earth burping. Too much CO2 injected into her will do that. If they can blame fracking, I can blame co2 injections.

Now that this article has been published in a scientific journal, it will continually come up in any other bogus research as fact.

Same thing happened in Youngstown, OH.

It would be helpful to know the depth the earthquakes occurred and the depth of the injections of fluid. I wonder why that was left out of the reporting?

#8, if this is a "scientific journal" then I am a Nobel Laureate.

I've read that Michelle 0bama has increased the amount of beans and vegetable roughage in school diets. I blame that.

Is this from LiveScience or LiberalScience?

Even if fracking caused these quakes, magnitude 3 are ridiculously light earthquakes. You could experience a magnitude 3 earthquake and not even realize it.

Frack Baby Frack !

This explains why, since 1906, San Francisco has not been using hydraulic fracking?

Seriously, these hair-on-fire idiots really need to some research. There is a little thing called the scientific method... These dopes use the fictional method, hypothesize & publish. Real experts do actual scientific research before forming conclusions.

The referee has thrown the BS flag. There will be a 15 yard penalty for roughing the fracker.

These little shakers have been going on in oil country for decades and decades as reservoirs, emptied of petroleum, subside. There is no connection with fracking. There have been similar shakes in coal country as worked out mines collapse. No big panic over that unless I missed it.

Hey in Los Angeles 3.x don't get no respect.

Though I have to admit - a shallow 2.x right under your tailbone, WILL get your attention.

But if that's all there is to frack, then let's keep frackin', will break out the booze and have a ball.

Bogus

Da Bears landed in Dallas and they won! That's as logical a reason as any.

Well I guess the earth spontaneously moved last year for us. We had an earthquake. Yep, fracking was going on down the road. I'd never heard of fracking before - but I sure know what was making the floor vibrate now. Yes, the floor was vibrating for months before the earthquake. The fracking has pretty much stopped and we haven't had any more earthquakes. Coincidence? I don't know. Just stating facts.

I like to know who paid for his "research".
I am sure that Saudis or Ruskies are involved, and probability of it is much higher than fracking creating earthquakes.

Yeah, sure.
And I suppose this "expert" stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

the unusual Dallas earthquakes were simply the Chicago Bears crushing Romo's head like a grape...

Godzilla, buried under tons of rock and earth by his foe Mothra, has awakened and climbing to the surface.

Or it is the Silent Majority who awakes and about to roar. We have had ENOUGH!

This "expert" is a fracking fraud

"It was a spontaneous reaction by the earth to the release of a video ", "I don't know the facts, but the oil companies acted stupidly" "The possibility that this unsupported idea might in some fashion be actual demands that draconian tax harvesting actions be imposed on all Americans".

I have heard this before. I know the drill.

In journolist, "linked" means somebody, somewhere, mentioned two things in the same sentence, paragraph, or lifetime.

Therefore and hereby officially, I link these earthquakes to the Ouachita Tectonic Front. My proof is that it has more words in it than does "hydraulic fracturing."