A class action lawsuit that claims an oil company is responsible for earthquakes that rattled the Prague area and parts of Seminole County in 2011 will go to trial in October in Norman.

The lawsuit alleges that New Dominion, LLC caused earthquakes on November 5, 6 and 8 of 2011 by injecting wastewater related to fracking deep below the earth’s surface. The quakes damaged several homes and business and left some people injured. New Dominion, headquartered in Tulsa, has a field office on Highway 99 in Seminole.

The Nov. 5 quake packed a 5.7 magnitude and according to the U.S. Geological Survey, it was the strongest quake to be recorded in Oklahoma at that time. It was later surpassed by a 2016 earthquake that measured 5.8 on the Richter scale.

Cleveland County District Judge Lori Walkley, who was assigned to hear the case for the District Court of Lincoln County, set the trial date for Oct. 18. The suit, filed by the Poynter Law Group based in Little Rock, Arkansas, alleges that earthquake damage occurred in Lincoln, Payne, Logan, Oklahoma, Cleveland, Pottawatomie, Seminole, Okfuskee and Creek Counties. Jennifer Lin Cooper, a resident of Lincoln County, is listed as the class representative in the lawsuit.

“People in Lincoln County and its eight bordering counties are likely to have been harmed by these earthquakes, and are members of the Class defined by Judge Lori Walkley of Cleveland County District Court and upheld by the Oklahoma Supreme Court. In October, the Plaintiffs must prove their case against New Dominion and that it is to blame for the seismicity,” Attorney Scott Poynter wrote in a blog posted to his firm’s website.

In a legal notice posted this week in The Oklahoman, Old Dominion denies that its operations caused the earthquakes. The notice stated that the trial on the “particular issues will not result in an award of damages for any member of the Class” or provide punitive damages. The purpose of the trial will be to determine whether the quakes were caused or contributed to by New Dominion. “There is no money available now and no guarantee that there ever will be,” the legal notice states.

Those who have not yet filed notice to be a part of the lawsuit can still do so by filing with the Lincoln County District Court Clerk.