As Quakes Rattle Oklahoma, Fingers Point to Oil and Gas Industry
Article by Richard A. Oppel Jr. and Michael Wines published by The New York Times:
As Quakes Rattle Oklahoma, Fingers Point to Oil and Gas Industry
A version of this article appears in print on April 4, 2015, on page A1 of the New York edition
PRAGUE, Okla. — Yanked without warning from a deep sleep, Jennifer Lin Cooper, whose family has lived near here for more than a half-century, could think only that the clamor enveloping her house was coming from a helicopter landing on her roof. She was wrong.
A 5.0-magnitude earthquake — the first of three as strong or stronger over several days in November 2011 — had peeled the brick facade from the $117,000 home she bought the year before. Ms. Cooper, 36, could not get out until her father pried a stuck storm door off the front entrance. Repairs have so far cost $12,000 and forced her to take a second job, at night, to pay the bill.
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