Groningen Earthquakes

Groningen was hit by a major earthquake at around 5 50 a m.

Groningen earthquakes. Hundreds of people have reported feeling the quake which hit shortly before 6am. 120 000 home owners in groningen to get compensation for quake property value cut information added by john donovan. By 11am officials had received 90 reports of damage including. The people of groningen were shaken away one person said on twitter.

Gas extraction operations occurred in groningen for 20 years without any induced earthquakes but according to figures from the dutch meteorological organization knmi there have been 1 470 earthquakes in the netherlands since 1986. Real time data visualisation map of earthquakes in the world of past 30 days with magnitude 4 5. Groningen netherlands has had. Many people across a large area of the province felt the quake.

After protests in groningen because of the increase in induced earthquakes whose event count shows an exponential growth in time the dutch government decided on 17 january 2014 to cut output from the gas field and pay those affected by the earthquake a compensation worth 1 2 billion euro spread over a period of 5 years. Rtv noord received over a hundred reports of it. A magnitude 3 4 earthquake has hit the northern dutch province of groningen the latest in a series of tremors blamed on decades of gas extraction. 0 earthquakes in the past 30 days.

M1 5 or greater 0 earthquakes in the past 24 hours 0 earthquakes in the past 7 days. What makes the situation in groningen unique compared to other major gas fields. Government tells 200 companies they have four years to stop sourcing gas from groningen field after increasingly significant earthquakes groningen field is one of europe s richest sources of gas. On christmas day of that year a 2 8 quake struck in assen.

The province of groningen was hit by a strong earthquake in the early hours of wednesday morning as the ground continues to settle following the extraction of natural gas. By anna holligan bbc news the netherlands. Groningen gas fields the dutch earthquake zone. The epicenter was at westerwijtwerd a village in the north of the province that falls under the.

The quakes were relatively rare at first. Nam is the shell exxon joint venture company responsible along with the dutch government for the earthquake blighted groningen gas field and the consequential bill for dealing with 120 000 damaged residences may 27 2020.