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Youngstown Rocks: Is Fracking Causing Earthquakes in Ohio?

Until 2011, Youngstown had never recorded an earthquake. Now it has registered 11. John Avlon investigates.

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Youngstown, Ohio, had its 11th earthquake since St. Patrick’s Day on New Year’s Eve—a magnitude-4.0 on the Richter Scale, the highest to date.

My wife and I were in town visiting my 96-year-old grandmother and felt the mid-afternoon rattle shake the roof for five to 10 seconds.

What makes the minor rumble...

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