Decision comes after recent uptick in temblors – 35 of at least 3.0 magnitude from 17-24 June – but it remains unclear what such regulations will look like ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Screenshot from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources' Ohio Earthquakes Epicenters Map showing the locations of earthquakes ...

Evidence is growing that fracking for oil and gas is causing earthquakes that shake the heartland. States like Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and Ohio are being hit by earthquakes that appear linked to oil ...

We already know that hydraulic fracturing—the process of injecting millions of gallons of water and chemicals deep into the earth to exploit the natural gas trapped inside rock—can likely help cause ...

A new kind of earthquake has been detected in western Canada, one that shakes the ground slower and longer than typical seismic events. These earthquakes, recorded during hydraulic fracturing for oil ...

Since late April, more than 50 small earthquakes have rattled Noble County in southeast Ohio, prompting the Department of Natural Resources to stop a hydraulic fracturing operation there. At the end ...

The swarm of earthquakes went on for months in North Central Texas, rattling homes, with reports of broken water pipes and cracked walls and locals blaming the shudders on the fracking boom that’s led ...

Pennsylvania environmental regulators have found a likely correlation between a natural gas company’s fracking operation and a series of tiny earthquakes in western Pennsylvania last year. The quakes ...

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources asked Encino Energy to halt fracking operations in Noble County after recording an abnormal number of earthquakes in the area. According to the department, the ...