It is said by seismic activity specialist the quakes could be related to natural or human activity but did not confirm or deny that they were connected to oil drilling in the area.
Local meteorologist provided earthquake coverage said they had been in contact with USGS geophysicists, and that it is next to impossible that oil drilling or fracking directly caused the earthquakes.
“Our area lies along a normally inactive fault line known as the Bahama Fracture Zone. Earthquakes generally don’t happen along this fault. Seeing minor activity like this is not uncommon. It happened about 30 years ago. We are told they are part of normal seismic activity.”
Sandy Ebersole, who heads the division of the Geological Survey of Alabama that documents and studies earthquakes, said it’s not uncommon to have multiple small-scale earthquakes back-to-back.
“We do have episodes of this kind of seismic activity clusters once in a while,” Ebersole said in the article. “That’s normal seismic activity for our area.”
