What percentage of earthquakes result from human activities, e.g., drilling for oil, natural gas, etc.?
Most people know that fossil fuel consumption impacts air quality locally and globally and that aerosol use affects the ozone layer. Now that oil well drilling, coal mining, and natural gas digging industries have virtually exhausted Earth's capacity to provide natural resources for fuel in these areas, is there a means to measure the impact of these activities upon Planet Earth? Do scientific studies exist, and, if so, what quantitative results have already been reported among specialist communities and/or by media to inform the general public?Even though it may be too late to take corrective action to mitigate irreparable harm to Planet Earth, perhaps scientific facts resulting from investigative inquiries pertaining to Planet Earth will influence the ways and means aspects of current projects for appropriating and industrialization involving Earth's Moon. If the impact of industrialization and appropriation of Earth's natural resources can be expressed quantitatively, then could a ratio be calculated to indicate a maximal limit beyond which lunar appropriation would predictably impinge on the delicate balance between Earth and Moon? Is global climate change, including violent storms previously associated with Planet Jupiter which have virtually disappeared there but seemingly reappeared on Planet Earth, more manageable than we think? Might it not be possible to avoid future mistakes in our exploration of Earth's lunar counterpart by collecting data from our appropriation of Earth's natural resources, loading it into computers, and predicting outcomes in paradigmatic comparative quantitative (and qualitative) studies with Earth's Moon?Submitted July 12, 2019 by Nancy A. Watanabe, Ph.D., Comparative Literature
July 15, 2019 An article in _Scientific Reports_ (10 July 2017) asserts " A well-established injection experiment in the 1960s demonstrates that humans can influence earthquake occurrence by pumping water in the subsurface" (1,2). This SR article strongly suggests that earthquakes are not all "acts of God." My original inquiry pertains to a century of "injections" by oil well drilling, coal mining, and natural gas harvesting and the cause-and-effect relationship with earthquakes on Earth. My purpose is to prove the necessity of scientists, whether funded by national governments or private corporations, performing preliminary investigations and producing for public consideration by all nations, e.g., an international congress for all matters pertaining to the moon (exploration, commercial development, habitation, et cetera) numerous environmental impact reports focusing on, but not limited to, any and all human activities conducted on Earth's moon. While the USA and China have already begun exploration and planning to appropriate Earth's moon's natural resources, to my knowledge, little or nothing is being accomplished to avoid repeating the mistakes made during the European Renaissance, including appropriation by empires of raw materials in Africa, Asia, America, and the Caribbean using slave laborers (human capital) and depriving nature lovers (indigenous Amerindian and aboriginal tribes) of their human right to happiness. (1) (PDF) The Pawnee earthquake as a result of the interplay among injection, faults and foreshocks. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318323848_The_Pawnee_earthquake_as_a_result_of_the_interplay_among_injection_faults_and_foreshocks [accessed Jul 15 2019].
Nancy Ann Watanabe https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/10/human-induced-earthquakes-fracking-mining-video-spd/
@Rad Maythil Thank you for inputting the link to the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC articles publishing reasons for rapidly increasing earthquakes caused by fracking, mining, waste water disposal, and other human activities, exacerbated when located in proximity to plate tectonics fault lines.