While Oklahoma's spike in earthquakes has been heavily publicized, Jeremy Boak, director of the Oklahoma Geological Survey, said it's less widely known that the state has been taking steps toward combating the pattern of induced seismicity.

After a series of earthquakes in Cushing, Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission has issued restrictions on disposal wells: certain wells' operations have been required to reduce their depth — a plug-back restriction — and others have been required to reduce the volume of produced water that they're injecting. Similar plans have been put in place following earthquake activity in the Bedford, Fairview, Byron and Cherokee areas.