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Another Ohio community rocked by quakes


By Karl Henkel





Cue Washington County.



Sound familiar?















One barrel holds 42 gallons.









The ODNR is aware of the anticline.



















“I’m also concerned about government being honest to people.”


1Maggie_Pentz(85 comments)posted 2 years, 2 months ago

Good investigative reporting Karl! This is more of what this area needs...the truth, the facts! Thank you, keep it up!

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2bigmoney(3 comments)posted 2 years, 2 months ago

What are you talking about? There's no connection between Fracking and earthquakes. We care about the environment. We would never do anything to hurt it.

After all, we are bigmoney.

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3juanita1944(33 comments)posted 2 years, 2 months ago

do we forget the 4.3 quake in parkwood? do we forget that it rocked my house and cracked other people cellar wall?......lets no forget that we might die if those wells are started up again?come on you can't see? now we are directed to the southern part of the state.....hey people down there say something.......save your lives also.....call the govenor your state rep......get on their nerves....protest.....keep their phones busy...one day your grand children might have to live in these areas .....if we stop saying stop......they won;t be able to when our houses are totaled and they have no future i can't walk to well where wlll i live? who will buy me a house? am i and my family in this? or are the big businesses the rulers...we the people...remember that saying..........we the people rule

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4Attis(812 comments)posted 2 years, 2 months ago

Money talks. In this fracking case, it lies.

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5sue(165 comments)posted 2 years, 2 months ago


Injection wells do NOT involve fracking. Fracking is a part of the overall drilling process that is used to break up the rock in the hopes of producing a gas/oil well. An INJECTION well like the one in Youngstown is a well in which contaminated fluids are deposited (i.e. it is not a producing oil/gas well.
Having said that, the evidence thus far does indicate that the INJECTION well (not fracking) probably did cause the earthquake.

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6m8ke_the_call(104 comments)posted 2 years, 2 months ago

Breaking news (sarcasm): Bob Hagan is still an idiot liberal who wants to strangle our families with energy costs because he is against all domestic drilling.

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7RobX(59 comments)posted 2 years, 2 months ago

Looks like too many people slept through science class!

* An injection well is NOT a fracking well. Fracking doesn't cause earthquakes.
* A 3.1 earthquake is NOT going to kill anyone. Small quakes prevent big ones.
* Hagan is not "becoming a semi expert" on anything but bloviating. The man's got no interest in anything but which way the ultra-liberal winds are blowing. I'm a Democrat who wishes he'd stick to driving trains.

Has anyone checked if the anti-fracking hysteria is funded by the coal companies? The more natural gas we get safely out of the shale, the less they make by strip mining!

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8CongressWatcher(140 comments)posted 2 years, 2 months ago

I don't know about the funding of the anti-fracking hysteria. I simply have the following concerns that I believe are reasonable. Don't shake my house and don't frack up my water. Other than that, I hope you create energy, jobs, and wealth.

As for sleeping through science class, if ODNR would listen to the guy who put together the following map like Karl Henkel did, we would avoid alot of issues and still take advantage of the economic boom.


go to this map and then zoom out until you see Marietta and Central West Virgina. Note that all of these earthquake clusters have two things in common. Near mountain ranges and injection wells as high pressures and volumes.

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9zorrogirl(12 comments)posted 2 years, 2 months ago


Welcome to the ODNR and the Kasich state government, Bob. Hansen is a good guy, but he need more help and equipment. It's ridiculous he has to do his work on a shoestring.

I'm wondering now about that gas pipeline rupture in Wellington this week. Is it possible that earthquake weakened something with that line? That in turn cause the rupture and the leaking of 10,000 gallons of gasoline? They keep saying there was no damage, but how do we know? How do we know nothing underground was damaged? Not to mention there was damage above ground to many people's homes. I smell cover-up all over this.

Love you, Bob Hagan, go get 'em!

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10bigmoney(3 comments)posted 2 years, 2 months ago

What's that you say? Brine injection would not be forced upon us if not for fracking?

Are you saying that brine injection is a part of the fracking process?

Are you saying that one necessarily follows the other?

I am big money and I will create confusion if I can.

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11Silence_Dogood(1185 comments)posted 2 years, 2 months ago


Bob Hagan you really are a blowhard. I have just one question for you , you blowhard in chief. Why did you not take the time to go and listen to the REAL EXPERTS. Is it because you think you know more about this science then the real experts, or is it because you thought that there was not going to be any CAMERA'S there.

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12bigmoney(3 comments)posted 2 years, 2 months ago

bigmoney no like Bob Hagan.

Bob Hagan trying to stop bigmoney.

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13najjjj(106 comments)posted 2 years, 2 months ago

RobX: Just for your science class info: small quakes DO NOT necessarily prevent larger quakes. In most cases they do not relieve pressure. Some are simply quakes, some are after shocks of early quakes, and some are actually fore-schocks. To make it simple it is the opposite of an aftershock. Fore-shocks can occur days or even months before a larger event. How do I know.......the USGS told me so.

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14Attis(812 comments)posted 2 years, 2 months ago

zorrogirl, you may be onto something suggesting that the gasoline rupture in Wellington is related to the Youngstown earthquake caused by D&L. But the damage is much worse than you state. Some 116,760 gallons of gasoline leaked into the environment causing scores of poor folks in a trailer park to be evacuated; 70 of them are still forced to stay away from their trailer homes. There's a public meeting about this at the Wellington HS on 1/16 at 6pm. Someone needs to ask directly about a connection to the earthquake.

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15southbelle22(16 comments)posted 2 years, 2 months ago

GREAT REPORTING!!!! it helps us to sleep at night knowing that SOMEONE besides, of course, the brilliant Bob Hagan, is really working on uncovering the TRUTH and protecting the health and safety of the residents of this valley and beyond.

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16southsidedave(4689 comments)posted 2 years, 2 months ago

Where will this all end...

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17CongressWatcher(140 comments)posted 2 years, 2 months ago

It amazes me that I would sit through a whole two hour public meeting with ODNR officials as they presented all their possible theories about the earthquakes and not once would one of them mentioned that a similar situation occurring in Marietta during the same time frame as our earthquakes.

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18hellokitty(161 comments)posted 2 years, 2 months ago

...in Hell, SSD :(

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19JoeFromHubbard(824 comments)posted 2 years, 2 months ago

> > >Youngstown has become the poster city for potential injection-well-induced earthquakes. - - -

Says who?

I'm impressed that the word "potential" was used with "earthquake." At this point, only circumstantial evidence relates injection wells and earthquakes in Youngstown. It will take months, if not years, to correlate the two events to the point that legal liability may be assigned.

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20gwscience1(7 comments)posted 2 years, 2 months ago

The at-least-coincidental connections between deep well injection and these unusual earthquakes are finally getting the attention they deserves. That said, Bob Hagan's comments and attitude toward the ODNR people meet my standard for "bloviating" and he needs to apologize for implying that they are dishonest. He is certainly no "semi-expert". I'm a hydrogeologist not involved in oil and gas and I have known/watched the work of these guys for years. They aren't "bought." Any geologist is reluctant to make an outright cause-effect declaration based on the level of information they have now. Their hedging is typical caution. People are right to be concerned, but let them work it out - in the glaring light of informed public scrutiny.

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21fattynskinny(193 comments)posted 2 years, 2 months ago

isn't our area "way overdue" for a major earthquake...these certainly could be the pre-mother quakes happening... truth is we don't have the ability to predict so we'll not know for sure if it's natural or manmade

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22JoeFromHubbard(824 comments)posted 2 years, 2 months ago

It's certainly freshening to see some enlightened comments on the subject instead of the hysteria of too many recent posts.

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23Bigben(1996 comments)posted 2 years, 2 months ago

najjjj--You beat me to it with post 13. Well said.

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24Bigben(1996 comments)posted 2 years, 2 months ago

". . .so we'll not know for sure if it's natural or man made." - -- Epicenter never before recorded in the area then since injecting we have had how many in less than one year? Things that make you go hmmm.

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25commoncitizen(936 comments)posted 2 years, 2 months ago

All these "expert" opinions and they don't know the difference between an jection well and oil/gas well ---Maybe Hagan the self professed expert needs to explain it to these people.

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26AnotherAverageCitizen(1161 comments)posted 2 years, 2 months ago


Hagan has not professed to be an expert. You are the only one calling him that. Hagan only wants to have investigations and gather true facts about fracking and injection wells. It only makes sense to have a moratorium on drilling, fracking and wells while we can find out the TRUTH.

If fracking/oil drilling/putting brine in the ground is safe and will create the 200,000 jobs kasich told us it would create, then stopping and investigating and learning the TRUTH, then continue, is well worth the wait.

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