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FogerRox

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37. Within one mile of an injection well

Reply to ixion (Original post)

Sun Jan 1, 2012, 05:51 PM

Jan 2012

http://thecomingcrisis.blogspot.com/2011/12/earthquakes-force-ohio-to-shut-down.html

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4.0 magnitude quake strikes in northeast Ohio, the latest near a gas drilling injection well [View all] ixion Dec 2011 OP

Where are they fracking? Thanks. nt gateley Dec 2011 #1

We are killing ourselves Charlemagne Dec 2011 #2

They not we are killing us. RedCloud Dec 2011 #13

BAN FRANKING IN THE US!!! BEFORE 5000 DIE!! I MEAN ARE MURDERED!!! BenYehuda Dec 2011 #3

Yes - the fracking has to stop. SpiralHawk Jan 2012 #22

This is only the latest in a series of quakes - hedgehog Dec 2011 #4

USGS link Joe Bacon Dec 2011 #16

So soon Fox News will begin their campaign of; greiner3 Jan 2012 #31

Imagine that. The report I read in the local headlines said a Explosion was heard. BUT no one Justice wanted Dec 2011 #5

If you are at a shallow quake site the sound from the slip of the earth sounds like an explosion! sce56 Jan 2012 #18

from 2000---earthquake risks in ohio madrchsod Dec 2011 #6

that's not a fracking site, that's the injection well where they dump the toxic waste water. limpyhobbler Dec 2011 #7

ban unbrainwashed Jan 2012 #26

I think it's just the waste water (brine) disposal that's been banned in PA. limpyhobbler Jan 2012 #28

it's a lie to call it brine nebenaube Jan 2012 #40

right...toxic waste of unknown composition limpyhobbler Jan 2012 #41

It was interesting to read about this in Stephen King's book 11/22/63. russspeakeasy Dec 2011 #8

The first I have heard of this in Ohio. If fracking is causing them we doc03 Dec 2011 #9

It may be time to get your house on shock absorbers ixion Dec 2011 #10

I am planing on moving to Florida before the stuff hits the fan here, I will probably need pontoons doc03 Dec 2011 #11

We get earthquakes in Florida too... spin Jan 2012 #21

Meanwhile, the gas companies in our very back yards say: blue neen Dec 2011 #12

+100 n/t Lugnut Jan 2012 #24

Excellent video about the fracking process in this thread: blue neen Dec 2011 #14

It's called Fault Lubrication. AtheistCrusader Dec 2011 #15

I keep telling people this. RoccoR5955 Jan 2012 #33

Didn't Oklahoma have a bunch of these small quakes this summer? sarcasmo Jan 2012 #17

Yeah, but injection wells were over 40 miles away from epicenter FogerRox Jan 2012 #36

4 is a truck going down the street... RUMMYisFROSTED Jan 2012 #19

How long before insurance companies stop covering earthquakes Duer 157099 Jan 2012 #20

Excellent point. blue neen Jan 2012 #23

Actually most basic homeowners insurance do not cover earthquakes itsrobert Jan 2012 #25

That needs to change now that we know that we can cause them. saras Jan 2012 #27

Chesapeake Energy – Peeking Behind the Curtain Frack Glop Jan 2012 #29

Our corporations and shell companies have gotten so out of control, fasttense Jan 2012 #30

And in the PBS film 'Gasland' were abetted by those farmers who sold their mineral rights, so that freshwest Jan 2012 #38

I recently read jdadd Jan 2012 #32

The Brine Waste Water ????? otohara Jan 2012 #34

Kasich gets something right--stops waste disposal Maeve Jan 2012 #35

Within one mile of an injection well FogerRox Jan 2012 #37

Peak Oil KansDem Jan 2012 #39

I grew up in this part of Ohio, just fourteen miles from Youngstown. icymist Jan 2012 #42