Panel hears testimony about fracking, Kan. quakes

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Geologists on Tuesday told a Kansas House committee that more seismic monitoring in the state could help determine if hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is connected to earthquakes.

Rex Buchanan, interim director of the Kansas Geological Survey, testified before the House Energy and Environment Committee that no evidence exists that the fracturing of rocks deep beneath the earth’s surface was producing earthquakes that can be felt.

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