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4. This is only the latest in a series of quakes -

Sat Dec 31, 2011, 10:09 PM

Dec 2011

the drilling operations were stopped last week!

The small earthquake that shook Youngstown on Christmas Eve had a depth shallower than originally reported, prompting the Ohio Department of Natural Resources on Friday to order D&L Energy Inc. to cease operations at a nearby brine-injection well.

The magnitude 2.5 earthquake, officially the 10th since March 17 to occur within two miles of the brine-injection well on Ohio Works Drive, had a depth of 11,000 feet, said Andy Ware, deputy director at ODNR. It was the shallowest depth of any of the quakes.

That is only about 2,000 feet below the bottom of the D&L injection well, which ceased operations as of 5 p.m. Friday.

http://www.vindy.com/news/2011/dec/31/dampl-halts-operations-at-brine-well/

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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