's Peace region is experiencing roughly 1,500 small earthquakes a year and most of them are connected to fracking operations, according to a new study. Researchers set up 15 earthquake detectors around the region and recorded 5,757 tiny earthquakes that were otherwise undetected between 2017 and 2019. "Large magnitude events can produce larger acceleration and velocity of the ground and, of course, can produce larger damages to infrastructure," he said. In 2018, a 4.5 magnitude earthquake shook Fort St. John. According to the research so far, seismic events have been detected at a distance as far as five kilometres from the fracking operations.

Source: CBC News August 03, 2020 16:52 UTC