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January 3, 2012

Seismologists: Fracking Linked to 11 Ohio Earthquakes Since March 
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Seismologists believe a pair of earthquakes that rocked Ohio recently
may have been the result of the controversial natural gas extraction
process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. A 4.0-magnitude
earthquake shook the city of Youngstown Saturday, one week after another
quake shook a nearly identical location. Both sites are at the bottom of
a 9,200-foot-deep disposal well where waste from fracking had been
injected under pressure. The quakes were the tenth and eleventh to occur
near the well since March. Links between fracking sites and earthquakes
have also been noted in Texas, Arkansas, Colorado and Oklahoma.



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