The first case of the scientifically acceptable occurrence of RTS was at Lake Mead reported way back in 1945 by Carder (Bull Seismol Soc Am 35:175–192, 1945), where an RTS magnitude 5 earthquakes had occurred in 1939. In the years to follow, several RTS cases were reported globally. A list of such cases was compiled by Gupta (Reservoir Induced Earthquakes, Elsevier, 364p, 1992) which included four sites where earthquake sequences with largest earthquake of M ≥ 6, six sites where M 5.0–5.9, twenty-three sites where M 4–4.9, and thirty-five sites where M < 4 earthquake occurred. Gupta ( Reservoir Induced Earthquakes, Elsevier, 364p, 1992) also listed 8 sites where consequent to filling of the artificial water reservoir, a decrease in seismicity was noticeable. Wilson et al. (Seismol Res Lett 88:1560–1565, 2017) reported close 730 sites where anthropogenic activity related earthquakes occurred. In their listing mining and artificial water reservoir related cases of induced earthquakes dominated. However, the listing lacked a strict scrutiny of the cases, said to be related with anthropogenic activities.