Oklahoma Earthquake

Let’s play a game. Close your eyes and imagine that it’s the middle of the night and you are awaken by a loud roar coming beneath your feet. As you stumble downstairs you cover your head from objects falling from bedroom walls, kitchen cabinets, and bookshelves as you shout to your love ones to go outside. You head to the closet to get your emergency bag filled with two flashlights, three water bottles and six protein bars. As your about to exit the building it all stops just to be repeated a few nights later. Now open your eyes imagine this. Imagine that this is not make believe but the reality residents of Oklahoma face constantly due to the sudden increase in earthquake activity. Oklahoma has recently had an increase in the number of earthquakes they have each year from magnitudes ranging from .05 to 3.4 and above. There were three earthquakes on February seven 2016, thirty-two in the past seven days, one hundred and seventy in the past month and three thousand three hundred and ninety six in the past month according to the Earthquake tracker. The state urges residence to have an earthquake preparedness plan due to the constant increase and magnitude of the earthquakes.
The two competing theories on the cause of this phenomenon are that the introduction of hydraulic fracturing, best known as fracking,
Ever since the introduction of Fracking in Oklahoma the number of earthquakes per year went from 103 a year to 160 in a month. For instance a state geologist,_____, reported , “Earthquake activity in Oklahoma in 2013 was 70 times greater than it was before 2008.”(Pantsios) Oklahoma historically recorded an average of 1.5 quakes of magnitude 3 or greater each year. It is now seeing an average of 2.5 such quakes each day, according to geologists. According to local News 6 ,“Oklahoma's earthquakes have been linked to the injection of wastewater underground from oil and gas