Rich Stottlemire of Girard said the cracks in his garage weren't there before Saturday's earthquake.
"It's a very aggressive crack right through the foundation."
There's more just outside of his front door.
"It's kind of scary, it's actually the little things that you know people need to look at," he said.
Seismologists determined the epicenter of the earthquake to be less than a tenth of a mile from D & L Energy's brine fluid injection well in Youngstown, which was voluntarily shut down Friday.
This earthquake marked the 11th in the Valley since March, all of them within two miles of that well.
"This idea that humans injecting fluids can cause earthquakes is not new," says Dr. Ray Beiersdorfer, a professor of geology at Youngstown State University.
He said it's happened in other parts of the country.
"What happens is the water acts as a lubricant so they are pumping water down at about 9,000 feet, and it was working it's way down in and it wound up serving as a lubricant, which then reduced the friction and we had the earthquake. This isn't the first time. About 300 million years ago when the rocks at Mill Creek Park were deposited, it's thought that these ancient faults were activated then and now they're being reactivated today."
Following Saturday's earthquake, Governor John Kasich issued a ban on all injection well operations within a five-mile radius of the Youngstown D & L well.
That ban will remain in effect until O.D.N.R. can further assess the situation.
We contacted the C.E.O. of D & L Energy to see if he wanted to comment.
He told us he's personally meeting with O.D.N.R. officials later this week and will make a statement once he himself has more information.
