Spanish government blames 'gasquakes' for alarms on...

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Twenty minor earthquakes last night and some 300 in the last two weeks along Spain's eastern coast have led to the government blaming a big offshore gas storage project using the pumped-out underwater reservoir beneath a former oil rig.

One tremor in the Bay of Valencia on Tuesday was of 4.2 magnitude: the gas storage project was halted just days ago.

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