Quakes and Infrastructure in North Texas

From the Dallas Morning News news today - Quakes could be teaming up to jolt infrastructure:

"“We do not expect problems with our infrastructure during small-magnitude earthquake clusters, but our expectations are based on limited experience and subject to change,” said Ian Buckle, an engineering professor at the University of Nevada Reno who studies earthquake effects.

And the North Texas swarm is happening in an area that’s much more built up than parts of Nevada, Oklahoma, Kansas and New York where similar small-scale, repeated earthquakes have been measured in recent years. So lots more pipes, roads and buildings could be affected.

There’s also a joker in the deck: It’s at least possible that small, rapid earthquakes could induce the “resonance effect.” The same odd property that lets singers break a glass with their voices could amplify the power of even minor quakes."