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Political Factoid
Youngstown, Ohio, had no
earthquakes between 1776
and 2011,
... but 109 earthquakes were
recorded there in 2011,
including a magnitude-3.9
earthquake on Dec. 31, 2011,
... all of which are
directly traceable to
the Northstar 1
injection well* which
had come on line in
December of 2010.
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Injecting water and chemicals into the
ground for the oil and gas industry's
"fracking" process.
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