Approach Paragraph The number of earthquakes induced by rapid industrialization seems to be rising. Therefore, my objective was to research statistical data about this disaster to understand if my argument about humanity’s impact on the rise in seismic activity is valid. My approach was to find recent studies about the effect of human activity on the growing number of earthquakes. The time range for the scholarly articles was selected within the last five years. I found papers demonstrating the association between the facilitation of mining and an increase in earthquakes. The pieces that support the opposing view claim that the data about their number may be distorted due to the lack of difference in the development mechanism of natural and artificial earthquakes. Still, the authors of those manuscripts cannot deny that the termination of human activity resulted in a reduction in earthquakes. I would change my research strategy to more specific keywords, but the overall approach remains the same. Eventually, I plan to prove that the number of artificial earthquakes increases due to human activity every year, following humanity’s destructive impact. Annotated Bibliography Doglioni, C. (2018). A classification of induced seismicity. Geoscience Frontiers , 9 (6), 1903-1909. This paper aimed to classify anthropogenically caused tectonic destruction into four groups: fluid injection, fluid removal, high-pressure injection, and crustal loading and unloading. The author’s main argument is that there is no sufficient data about the correlation between human activity and increased earthquakes. Still, they accept that the mechanism of damage from mining equipment is undeniable. This article’s data appears reliable because it was published within the last five years in a peer-reviewed journal rated as the eighth-best journal in this field. The classification and detailed description of mechanisms support the argument that changes in the natural “tectonic settings” can trigger seismic activity (p. 1908). Indeed, this paper is closely related to the study by Kang et al. (2019) explaining manufactured damage to the lithosphere. The authors conclude their article with the suggestion of implementing mathematical modeling to prevent earthquakes from industrial activity. Foulger, G. R., Wilson, M. P., Gluyas, J. G., Julian, B. R., & Davies, R. J. (2018). Global review of human-induced earthquakes. Earth-Science Reviews , 178 , 438-514. Despite accepting that anthropogenic activity can induce seismic activity, the authors of this paper claim that the number of artificial earthquakes is overestimated on the HiQuake database. This manuscript was an invited review in a peer-reviewed journal with a high impact factor. Although the authors question the validity of information on this database, they admit that even if the magnitude of these events was primarily low, they were caused by human activity. Therefore, this article proves that the number of earthquakes increased due to the rapid development of mining. Still, it states that their magnitude is often low, causing no harm to the population. Kang, J. Q., Zhu, J. B., & Zhao, J. (2019). A review of mechanisms of induced earthquakes: From a view of rock mechani