I can imagine the impact on the price of a tipper of gravel. Gravel price will hit the roof with this ban.

dingbang:
until when another tremor happens, they will know that there is a cause for alarm. There should be a question, what triggered the earth tremor?

Isn't this why they took the decision? Read na!

bivanJohnaliuz:
no matter how hard you study GEOGRAPHY in school all these blOod sucking demons will kill ur carrier with 1 sinqle stroke. Meanwhile mining will not be the cause of the recent earthquake, itz jux a bomb against aso rock

And ur terrorist group threw the bomb abi

An explanation on how boreholes can lead to a tremor:

Let's say you have a stable basement rock formation beneath an estate. Now the residents of that estate (say 1000 houses) decide to drill borholes to get water.

Now borhole company contracted decide to target water flowing via fractures (subsurface cracks) in that basement rock.
So you have 1000 boreholes all drilled into one formation. Now what happens is the fractures which were one stable start loosing their stability because the stored stress withing the rock is dying to be released.
This (after an uncertain period) causes displacement, and release of seismic energy which disturbs the earth (the tremors).

As long as people keep drilling anyhow, the "stability" of the Nigeria will become a myth.

coolestchris:
who is your candidate

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