Filling a Summer News Hole with News on Earthquakes (Think GeoEnergy)
Recent news on earthquakes and a correlation to geothermal activities seem to fill a news hole in the summer and is only distracting on a larger debate on shale gas and fracking by the oil and gas industry.
The never ending story of scientific studies proving that geothermal activities cause earthquakes continue and it seems the recent wave of articles is simply another run at the same topic in this case likely to fill a news hole over the summer period.
While I am not arguing scientific arguments for geothermal activities being the cause to some seismicity, one has to keep in mind that geothermal power plants and development thereof is in most cases to be found in areas with either ongoing or formerly volcanic activities, which coincidentally can be found in tectonically active areas, such as the San Andreas fault in California, but essentially all along the western coast of the Americas and along the “Pacific Ring of Fire”.
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