More Ties Between Earthquakes And Deep Injection Wells

• Scott Detrow
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  Scott Detrow is a congressional correspondent for NPR. He also co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.
  
  Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.
  
  Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

Yesterday, NPR’s All Things Considered ran a version of our report on Pennsylvania’s link to Ohio earthquakes. You can listen to the story here.
Ohio’s Youngstown-area earthquakes – likely caused by deep injection wells – are nationally relevant because the United States Geological Survey is coming out with a report linking tremors to these wells, which deposit drilling wastewater underground.
Where are  deep injection wells located? We’ve mapped them out for you in both Pennsylvania and Ohio.

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