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"Earthquakes: Victims Think Drilling Triggered Shaking, and That's OK" [1]

"PRAGUE, Okla. -- Jerri Loveland sees a connection between the oil drilling that surrounds her home and the earthquake last November that upended her life."



"The magnitude-5.6 convulsion toppled her chimney and buckled her tornado cellar. It inflicted about $50,000 in damage to the farmhouse she shares with her husband, John, and their two young children on a gravel road about 45 minutes east of Oklahoma City.

They had no earthquake insurance, so they don't have the money for repairs. But if they don't fix the damage by September, they fear they'll lose their homeowners insurance."

Mike Soraghan reports for EnergyWire July 24, 2012. [2]

Disasters [3]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [4]
Public [5]
Source: EnergyWire [2], 07/25/2012
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/earthquakes-victims-think-drilling-triggered-shaking-and-thats-ok [2] http://eenews.net/public/energywire/2012/07/24/1 [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/disaster [4] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southwest [5] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81