Noble County was suddenly the sight of dozens of small earthquakes this year after fracking operations started in Buffalo ...

Ohio's recent earthquakes were minor — they were felt but did not cause major damage. For instance, the Noble County tremor on April 22 registered a 3.1 on the Richter Scale, which was the most ...

Then another. By May 8, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources had detected 53 earthquakes in the county, prompting the agency to halt hydraulic fracturing – or fracking – at a well pad there.

Southern Ohio was in for a slight − and temporary − shake on Monday afternoon, when a 3.3 magnitude earthquake hit the area. The U.S. Geological Survey reported that the seismic event occurred ...

More severe earthquakes are much less common. Magnitudes of 5.5 to 6.0 occur an estimated 350 times a year, and only 100 earthquakes with a magnitude of 6.1 to 6.9 are estimated each year.

An earthquake measuring a 3.1 magnitude has hit outside the capital city of Ohio. The US Geological Survey (USGS) detected the tremor 77 miles east of Columbus at 3:14pm ET. The region sits atop ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio—A new study suggests fracking triggered hundreds of small, unnoticeable earthquakes in eastern Ohio late last year, months before the state first linked seismic activity to the ...

A 3.1 magnitude earthquake that struck southeastern Ohio Monday was felt in eastern Kentucky, according to the United States Geological Survey.

But over the past two years, that's changed. Take Youngstown, Ohio, for example, which was highlighted in a Slate article last month. The city had experienced exactly zero earthquakes from 1776—when ...