From: Miam Herald Nation Wires
By Sean Cockerham
McClatchy Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON --
The swarm of earthquakes went on for months in North Central
Texas, rattling homes, with reports of broken water pipes and cracked
walls and locals blaming the shudders on the fracking boom that’s led to
skyrocketing oil and gas production around the nation.
Darlia Hobbs, who lives on Eagle Mountain Lake, about a dozen miles from Fort Worth, said that more than 30 quakes had hit from November to January.
“We have had way too many earthquakes out here because of the fracking and disposal wells,” she said in an interview.
While the dispute over the cause remains, leading geophysicists are now saying Hobbs and other residents might be right to point the finger at oil and gas activities.
Darlia Hobbs, who lives on Eagle Mountain Lake, about a dozen miles from Fort Worth, said that more than 30 quakes had hit from November to January.
“We have had way too many earthquakes out here because of the fracking and disposal wells,” she said in an interview.
While the dispute over the cause remains, leading geophysicists are now saying Hobbs and other residents might be right to point the finger at oil and gas activities.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/05/01/4092301_geophysicists-link-fracking-boom.html#storylink=cpy
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