Interesting no?

Prof Richard Davies, a petroleum geologist and pro-vice chancellor at Newcastle University, told The Telegraph that earthquakes resulting from fracking were unlikely to be a major risk given the UK’s geology.

“We lived with them without much concern during the coal mining era,” he said. “During coal production, vast numbers of earthquakes were created in the UK right until the 1980s and the coal miners’ strike. Effectively Margaret Thatcher stopped the earthquakes, and they were never very big. It’s the same set of rocks.”

He added: “The risk of seismicity is high, but the impact is low.”