munneke kept a record of the earthquakes which began in the region in the 1980s. in red were serious, some registering over 3 points on the richter scale. >> i began to record the earthquakes in 1990 four, and i stopped in 2015. because there were so many earthquakes that this list would have gone all the way to the ground. >> the earthquakes have led to more 100 60,000 damage claims to date, which prompted the dutch government to scale back gas production and take a decision to close down the gas field by next year. but the russian invasion of ukraine, and slashing of gas flows to europe has thrown those plans into question. the dutch government is now considering tapping the field's still ample reserves in case of a gas emergency in winter. machiel mulder is an energy expert at the university of groningen. he believes it's possible to temporarily raise output at the groningen field to get the residents on board as well. >> if you look at the value that you could make by producing and selling groningen gas on the market, it's huge. if you only use a small part of