USA Today Originally Posted: June 10, 2015 The connection between wastewater injection wells and an alarming increase in the frequency of earthquakes is getting a lot more scrutiny these days. First was Oklahoma, which has suddenly become the earthquake capital of the United States. The number of earthquakes with a magnitude of 3.0 or higher […]
Category: Earth Sciences
Wall Street Journal Originally Posted: June 9, 2015 Oil Firms Probed Over Texas Quakes Texas regulators are scrutinizing some of the biggest U.S. energy producers in the wake of several earthquakes that have rocked the Dallas-Fort Worth area this year. An Exxon Mobil Corp. subsidiary and EOG Resources Inc., one of the biggest shale-oil and […]
Jewel is a sophomore majoring in biology and environmental science in Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences. A member of the University Honors Program, she is the recipient of the SMU Founders Scholarship and Dedman College Scholarship. During summer 2012, she also received a Richter Fellowship to conduct research at SMU-in-Taos, where she will update […]
Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: May 30, 2015 Scientists at Southern Methodist University are embarking on an ambitious new project to map faults in North Texas. The study, funded with $122,337 from the U.S. Geological Survey, would help answer key questions about recent earthquakes in Dallas-Fort Worth. Those questions include: “How large of a quake […]
Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: May 29, 2015 Scientists at Southern Methodist University are embarking on an ambitious new project to map faults in the North Texas area. The study, funded with $122,337 from the United States Geological Survey, would help answer key questions about recent earthquakes in Dallas-Fort Worth, such as: “How large of […]
The Conversation Originally Posted: May 11, 2015 If you’ve been following the news lately, chances are you’ve heard about – or even felt – earthquakes in the central United States. During the past five years, there has been an unprecedented increase in earthquakes in the North American mid-continent, a region previously considered one of the […]
James Brooks, provost emeritus and professor emeritus in SMU’s Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, has received the 2015 AAPG Presidential Award for Exemplary Service, one of the highest honors of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG). AAPG President Randi Martinsen bestowed the honor upon Brooks “for a lifetime of inspired and dedicated […]
Oil and Gas Daily Originally Posted: April 30, 2015 Combination of gas field fluid injection and removal cause of earthquakes Several natural and man-made factors can influence the subsurface stress regime resulting in earthquakes. Natural ones include intraplate stress changes related to plate tectonics and natural water table or lake level variations caused by changing […]
Fort Worth Star-Telegram Originally Posted: May 4, 2015 By Max Baker On a day that small earthquakes continued to shake North Texas, Southern Methodist University researchers testified before a House committee on Monday about their study linking a swarm of previous temblors near Azle and Reno to oil and gas operations. While no one linked […]
RenewableEnergyWorld.com Originally Posted: April 22, 2015 By: Cathy Chickering Pace, SMU Geothermal Lab Clean water — it’s a precious resource in hot demand right now, for more than taking a shower or watering our crops. The United Nations projects the world’s population will grow by another billion people, to 8.4 Billion, by 2030. More people […]