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Fracking suspended in Blackpool after biggest earthquake yet
Gwad
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https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/cuadrilla-fracking-blackpool-earthquake-tremor-stopped-a9074216.html
Both are considered red events under the traffic light system for monitoring seismic events during fracking – pausing work for 18 hours is the routine response for any tremor over 0.5 magnitude. This provision has repeatedly brought operations in Lancashire to a halt.
The limit was set as a precautionary approach after two sizeable earthquakes struck at a Cuadrilla site near Blackpool in 2011.
In the US, which has a far more developed fracking industry, the limits are at between 2.7 and 4.5 depending on the state and Cuadrilla has repeatedly called for looser earthquake restrictions.
Both are considered red events under the traffic light system for monitoring seismic events during fracking – pausing work for 18 hours is the routine response for any tremor over 0.5 magnitude. This provision has repeatedly brought operations in Lancashire to a halt.
The limit was set as a precautionary approach after two sizeable earthquakes struck at a Cuadrilla site near Blackpool in 2011.
In the US, which has a far more developed fracking industry, the limits are at between 2.7 and 4.5 depending on the state and Cuadrilla has repeatedly called for looser earthquake restrictions.