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  • Expert: Wastewater well in Ohio triggered quakes

    01/03/2012 8:41:15 AM PST · by DJ MacWoW · 56 replies · 1+ views
    Associated Press ^ | Jan 2, 2012 9:33 PM (ET) | THOMAS J. SHEERAN
    CLEVELAND (AP) - A northeast Ohio well used to dispose of wastewater from oil and gas drilling almost certainly caused a series of 11 minor quakes in the Youngstown area since last spring, a seismologist investigating the quakes said Monday. Research is continuing on the now-shuttered injection well at Youngstown and seismic activity, but it might take a year for the wastewater-related rumblings in the earth to dissipate, said John Armbruster of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y. Brine wastewater dumped in wells comes from drilling operations, including the so-called fracking process to extract gas from underground shale...