{"id":35097,"date":"2022-08-04T19:15:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T00:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=35097"},"modified":"2022-08-04T19:15:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T00:15:03","slug":"oil-company-agrees-to-850k-settlement-for-2016-oklahoma-earthquake-damages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2022\/08\/04\/oil-company-agrees-to-850k-settlement-for-2016-oklahoma-earthquake-damages\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil company agrees to $850k settlement for 2016 Oklahoma earthquake damages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Residents around Pawnee and Cushing are one step closer to winning a class-action settlement involving earthquake damage. The lawsuit was filed following two 2016 earthquakes \u2014 one of which <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/tulsaworld.com\/earthquakes\/pawnee-quake-upgraded-to-state-record-5-8\/article_1cad8863-30d2-567b-aaa3-f148dfa40a7a.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">set a state record<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for the largest magnitude ever recorded.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The wastewater disposal well operator Eagle Road Oil LLC agreed to pay $850,000 to settle its portion of the lawsuit, which a judge will consider at a Sept. 15 fairness hearing. The suit was filed in November 2016 after a 5.8 magnitude earthquake hit Pawnee and a 5.0 quake struck near Cushing \u2014 both of which caused significant damage to homes and buildings.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the Pawnee quake, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission and the Environmental Protection Agency shut down 32 disposal wells and restricted another 35 wells. The settlement covers two years of earthquake damage from quakes that occurred within 50 miles of Pawnee between 2014 to 2016. Eagle Road denies allegations that it played a role in the quakes.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pawnee resident Sherri Laird <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2016\/09\/08\/oklahoma-sets-a-new-earthquake-record-as-aftershocks-jolt-residents-researchers-and-regulators\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">spoke to StateImpact after the 2016 earthquake<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. She said the quake cracked her chimney and broke a neighbor\u2019s sewer line. She was in bed when it hit.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMy husband and I had to hold onto the bedposts, it was so bad,\u201d Laird said.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eagle Road wasn\u2019t the only defendant in the suit \u2014 litigation will continue against Cummings Oil Co., Territory Resources LLC and EnerVest Operating LLC.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you sustained damage from these quakes, you can join the lawsuit by <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/kccsecure.com\/PawneeEarthquakeSettlement\/Claimant\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">submitting a claim here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> before Dec. 29. More information on the settlement can be found by calling 1-888-890-6717.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents around Pawnee and Cushing are one step closer to winning a class-action settlement involving earthquake damage. The lawsuit was filed following two 2016 earthquakes \u2014 one of which set a state record for the largest magnitude ever recorded.The wastewater disposal well operator Eagle Road Oil LLC agreed to pay $850,000 to settle its portion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":27686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490,491,301],"tags":[339,1440,1442,680,1441],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35097"}],"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\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35101,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35097\/revisions\/35101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}