“…It is well established that the increase in seismicity in the Fort Worth Basin (FWB) from 2008 through its peak in 2015, and continuing recently at far lower magnitudes and rates, was caused by deep disposal of oilfield wastewater (SWD) associated with development and production of the Barnett Shale (Figures 1 and 2) (Frohlich et al., 2016; Gao et al., 2021; Hennings et al., 2019; Hornbach et al., 2015, 2016; Magnani et al., 2017; Quinones et al., 2019; Scales et al., 2017). Discussion continues regarding the specific mechanisms that acted to induce multiple episodes of fault slip and earthquakes in the FWB, herein called earthquake sequences (ESs).…”