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Earthquake activities in the state of Texas were located using data obtained from “USGS science for changing a world”. Data is limited to years between 2001-2018 since hydraulic fracturing was developed and took a big part of most drilling activities in Texas. Drilling activities of wells were located using Drilling info. Drilling info was used to locate all active and completed oil and gas horizontal/directional wells. The data was exported into a CSV. File in Microsoft Excel and sorted out by surface latitude and longitude to be exported to ArcGIS. Studies and relationships were built based on exporting and symbolizing both events taking in consideration magnitude, depth, type of drilling, amount of water injection and disposal, production type, and location. Every County/Parish within the state of Texas that experienced drilling activities had also encountered induced earthquake activities. Earthquakes who had a magnitude of equal or greater than 2.5 on Richter scale were considered to be serious. We sorted earthquake intensities based on the following scale:

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Magnitude (Richter scale)                              Observed effect

           1.0–3.0                               Not felt except under very favorable Conditions

           3.0-3.9                                Vibrations similar to a passing truck

           4.0–4.9                                Felt by nearly all, unstable objects topple

           5.0–5.9                                Felt by all, damage in poorly built structures