Quakes may mean legal issues for oil companies

Topeka Capital-Journal: The shaking comes suddenly. “The quakes last night were two quick shocks and they were probably within a quarter second of each other,” Frank Smith explains. Smith lives about 10 miles east of Anthony, a small town southwest of Wichita. Early Tuesday morning, he once again felt a tremor, as he has so often during the past year. Smith is convinced the earthquakes are caused by the oil and gas operations that have proliferated in his part of the state in recent years. Increasingly, state government......

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