This article, published in the New York Times, addresses the potential link between fracking and earthquakes occurring nearby.  Poland Township in Ohio experienced two earthquakes in one day that were estimated to have originated within less than a mile from a fracking site.  Work was halted while it is determined “whether drilling operations induced the earthquakes,” but this isn’t the first time fracking has been tied to earthquakes in the vicinity (Fountain, 4).  Fracking has been linked to earthquakes in “Ohio, Arkansas, Oklahoma and other states, and in several countries” in the past (Fountain, 4).