For the past two centuries, the city of Youngstown, Ohio has not experienced any earthquakes. This type of geological behavior is relatively normal for a city that is not located near a fault line, places where earthquakes often occur. The city had not recorded an earthquake since before 1776, when authorities began recording it. When Northstar 1 began injecting waste fluid from hydraulic fracturing, however, earthquakes began to rumble. From January 2011 to April 2014, Youngstown, Ohio, recorded over 200 earthquakes. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has been going on since the 1940s and has been a profitable source of oil and gas. Fracking, while having positive economic impacts, also has negative environmental implications that are being brought to light, such as the seemingly never-ending earthquakes in Youngstown, Ohio. Fracking involves pumping large amounts of water, sand and chemicals into the Earth to release gas and oil from shale, a type of flat rock. Many chemicals are harmful to the health of living organisms, including humans. Fracking starts by drilling into the Earth for a few miles and then drilling horizontally for about a mile. Once the tubes are in place, small holes are drilled in the end of the tube. Then the chemical cocktail is injected. The pressure increases, causing the rocks to break and the mixture seeps into the cracks. Sand props open cracks where chemicals can enter. The chemicals help extract the oil and gas trapped in the rock. The process of obtaining fractured sand also has some environmental implications. To get to the silica sand, the miners have to sweep away all the flora and fauna found on the ground that is to be excavated. That leaves nothing…half a paper…if more incidents were to occur, scientists wouldn't know which areas to monitor and what to monitor those areas for, since companies rarely disclose information about the composition and discharge of their fracking mixes . Fracking has also had effects on human health. There are twenty-seven people who have shown symptoms of poisoning and the poisoning is suspected to be caused by Fracking. The companies have found loopholes in current legislation that prohibits doctors of patients with poisoning symptoms from disclosing any information regarding the disease to their patients, as well as to the public. Overall fracking has many destructive impacts on the Earth and its organisms. These problems could be prevented if more legislation and laws were created to prevent Fracking from harming the Earth and if people were more aware of the growing problems with Fracking.