A study of the Youngstown, Oh area leads Won-Young Kim of Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory to answer the question "Yes". The study, which was conducted from January 2011 to February 2012, concluded that there were 109 small earthquakes in the area (note he measured quakes as small as 0.4 on the Richter scale and as large as 3.9); they all occurred near a fracking site (a deep fluid injection well). There were no previous recordings of earthquake activity in the area prior to the beginning of fracking.
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