Surrey earthquakes: Is oil drilling causing tremors?
A series of more than 20 earthquakes in Surrey has been blamed on an oil well. A year after the first one, why are scientists still at odds over the cause?One caller feared there had been a plane crash and another believed they were being burgled.But unlike those on the phone to the police, she knew exactly why her home was shaking.
When the so-called"Surrey swarm" began in April 2018, Mrs Von Kaufmann and her neighbours did not have to look far for someone to blame. "Whenever the oil and gas operators start preparing for some intervention, then there is a set of earthquakes," he said."It's pretty straightforward.""There's no obvious link to the nearby oil drilling activities," he said.Emergency call made after Surrey earthquake
There was also"no physical mechanism that could explain why these earthquakes would be induced," he added.
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