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Natural Gas Drilling and Earthquakes
June 12, 2009 | Star-Telegram.com

A few small earthquakes in Texas have some people asking if the deep natural gas wells drilled into the Barnett Shale have triggered the quake. A few geologists provided comments for the article.


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