[OKC] Quakes linked to post-gas drilling process

[Shauna Lawyer Struby]

Quakes linked to post-gas drilling process

 

03/11/2010

 

By ANGELA K. BROWN  / Associated Press

 

A wastewater disposal process done after natural gas extraction - and not
the drilling itself - is a plausible cause for the surprising series of
minor earthquakes in north Texas, according to a study released Wednesday.

 

The first quakes occurred in October 2008 in Grand Prairie and Irving, and
seismic equipment detected 11 more in the area over the next couple of
months that were too small to be felt, according to the study by the
University of Texas and Southern Methodist University. No major injuries or
damage were reported in any of the events that set off car alarms and
knocked pictures off walls - the largest being a 3.3-magnitude quake near
Euless last spring.

 

Residents in Cleburne, about 50 miles southwest of Dallas, were shaken up by
a series of quakes last summer, but results of that study are not yet
available.

 

Full article here :::
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D9EC45281.html 

 

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