[fusion_text]Professor Oral Buyukozturk recently received a $1.3 million research grant from Shell to develop innovative technologies to detect and characterize oil operation induced earthquakes in areas near urban populations and to study the effects in neighborhood buildings. These operations and their locations are of significant concern and are challenging to characterize from both social and scientific perspectives. Buyukozturk is the Principal Investigator for the project, along with co-PI Nafi Toksöz of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS).[/fusion_text]