On Tuesday, Oklahoma's highest court has ruled out that a woman living the state who was injured during an earthquake happened in 2011 can sue oil companies, as she thinks they have caused the quake.

In the last five years, the state has witnessed a significant rise in earthquakes. Researchers have levied the blame on the oil and gas industry, as the companies inject add a lot of saltwater left over from oil and gas drilling.

As per the Oklahoma Geological Survey, the state has witnessed around 600 earthquakes in 2014 in comparison to just one or two in 2009. Experts said that in the last seven years, oil production in the state has doubled.

Another practice known as fracking has also been held liable for smaller earthquakes, but the practice is not held responsible for Oklahoma's tremors. Things have changed as the state has stricten regulations on injection walls.

It has come into notice that the state is planning to introduce tougher rules and lawsuits. In the incident, the woman who has filed the case suffered injuries on her legs. Now, she has sued two Oklahoma oil companies, New Dominion LLC and Spess Oil Company, which operate injection wells near her home in Prague, Oklahoma.

In 2014, the woman's case was dismissed as a lower court ruled out that the case has to be presented before the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, authority seeing oil and gas.