{"id":22656,"date":"2015-01-30T09:30:03","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T15:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=22656"},"modified":"2015-01-30T00:21:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T06:21:02","slug":"state-seismologist-to-wapo-oil-industry-has-tried-to-influence-earthquake-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2015\/01\/30\/state-seismologist-to-wapo-oil-industry-has-tried-to-influence-earthquake-research\/","title":{"rendered":"State Seismologist to WaPo: Oil Industry Has Tried to Influence Earthquake Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12651\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12651\" alt=\"Oklahoma Geological Survey seismologist Austin Holland.\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/01\/austin-holland-web-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Joe Wertz \/ StateImpact Oklahoma<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oklahoma Geological Survey seismologist Austin Holland.<\/p>\n<\/div><p><em>Washington Post<\/em> reporter Lori Montgomery traveled central Oklahoma and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/oklahoma-worries-over-swarm-of-earthquakes-and-connection-to-oil-industry\/2015\/01\/28\/eca21234-a71a-11e4-a2b2-776095f393b2_story.html\">filed a story <\/a>about Oklahoma&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/topic\/earthquakes-2\/\">earthquake swarm<\/a>, an examination that included interviews from concerned residents, politicians and Sandra Ladra, who was injured in the 5.7-magnitude November 2011 earthquake and <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2015\/01\/26\/oklahoma-supreme-court-to-decide-lawsuit-over-earthquake-near-prague-okla\/\">filed a lawsuit <\/a>seeking damages from oil copanies she says are liable.<\/p><p>Montgomery also interviewed a cadre of university, federal and state scientists, who suggest at least some of the shaking has likely been triggered by disposal wells. A few lines, in particular, stood out:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Meanwhile, the state seismologist, Austin Holland, readily acknowledged that the industry has tried to influence his work \u2014 even as he and his colleague, Amberlee Darold, are pelted with \u201chate e-mail\u201d from quake victims.<\/p><p>\u201cI can\u2019t really talk about it,\u201d Holland said, taking a cigarette break from the dirty work of burying instruments near a cow pasture southwest of Oklahoma City. \u201cI try not to let it affect the research and the science. We\u2019re going to do the right thing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post reporter Lori Montgomery traveled central Oklahoma and filed a story about Oklahoma&#8217;s earthquake swarm, an examination that included interviews from concerned residents, politicians and Sandra Ladra, who was injured in the 5.7-magnitude November 2011 earthquake and filed a lawsuit seeking damages from oil copanies she says are liable.Montgomery also interviewed a cadre of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490],"tags":[489,500,238],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22656"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22662,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22656\/revisions\/22662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}