According to Steve Horton, an earthquake specialist at the University of Memphis Center for Earthquake Research and Information noted the same pattern of seismic activity in West Virginia and Greenbrier, Arkansas, where previously there had been none. He told Fox News that Greenbrier isn't a place where earthquakes usually occur.
As it stated in the article, there hadn't been any seismic activities in West Virginia until they began to drill for natural gas. Then these seismic activities began and didn't stop until the West Virginia Oil and Gas Commission forced the dispossal companies to cut back on their injection rate and pressure, the professor said, the earthquakes there seem to have dissipated.
Evidence suggests that there is a correlation between drilling for gas and earthquakes.
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