Earthquake in Oklahoma 5.2 magnitude (prelim)

USGS preliminary report.

I live about 450 miles away (due east) and I believe my house creaked a little. I was watching ESPN and the post game show on the Game of the Century and Kirk Herbstreit was being interview from Stillwater and he said he felt something.

Hope everyone and everything is OK in OK.

These quakes in the midwest (and east coast) seem to resonant energy at bigger radii than similar size quakes on the pacific rim.

I felt a very slight shake here in Dallas, and the lamp over my dining table swayed visibly. It’s the first one I’ve felt here, though I’ve experienced stronger ones elsewhere.

Now revised to 5.6 Magnitude.

Felt it here strongly in Tulsa. It’s been upgraded to a 5.6–biggest ever recorded in OK.

We had one last night, too, around 2:15. I happened to be up with my baby at the time, but it was strong enough to wake a bunch of people up.

Don’t know what the frack is going on. Not fair that we get tornados and now earthquakes too! I’m seriously creeped out. At least with a tornado you usually get some kind of warning.

Welcome to my world, living on the New Madrid Fault. And Floods too!

And yes, checking this listing of recent quakes, there has been a series of quakes in the Oklahoma region.

Big quake in Virginia a couple months ago, now these quakes in OK. Tornados, big ass quakes and tsunamis internationally

Mother Nature has been seriously bitchy lately.

It was felt in parts of Arkansas too. Thankfully not where I live.

http://www.katv.com/story/15969384/52-quake-in-oklahoma-felt-across-arkansas

I see what you did there.

Part and parcel of the type of tectonic faults we have out here. The subduction zone creates very large mountain ranges (the metaphor they always use is “rumpled up carpet”) made of granite. Those mountains reflect the tectonic waves right back at the source.

OK and surrounding territories have a lot of sediment and sedimentary rocks from their time under a shallow sea. Earthquake waves have a blast propagating through those rocks.

The worst, though, is when you’re sitting on top of a dry lake bed, say like Mexico City. There, the tremors often cause the very fine, silty sediment to mix with groundwater and turn into mud. The ground literally liquifies underneath buildings. Not good.

Oklahoma Earthquake Survivor Song

Hee! I think all us Okies are a little giddy from the adrenaline rush tonight. My Facebook newsfeed has exploded.

I still have family and friends in Tulsa and surrounding areas. (Hallgirl2 and Hallgrandson are there visiting the in-laws for awhile while Hallgirl2’s hubby is in training school in Texas.) She texted me at midnight last night about it–safe, but a little freaked out.

Felt it strong here in the OKC.

Not the same type of motion as I felt in the big LA quakes I’ve been in. More rumbling*, and some odd (and LOUD) pounding, but no swaying or rolling. 30 to 40 secs is my time estimate. Lots of local news reports say almost a full minute. YMMV

  • like a 1970s era electronic football game.

I am reading on the comment boards in Oklahoma papers how the quakes are caused by fracking

Comment boards are also often full of uninformed hysteria. I’ll wait on that judgement.

Also, areas that have a lot of earthquakes have more faults and fractured rock. Unbroken rock such as is found in low-earthquake regions transmits shockwaves more efficiently.

Someone posted in Acepace’s link that it was felt next door in Saline county, AR.
Damn, I slept through it!

Felt it here in North Texas, though it was pretty mild.

Maybe it was caused by Texas A&M’s defense collapsing in the third quarter yesterday. :frowning:

Well, not to brag or anything, but…

Yes, I know only Battlestar Galactica fans will find that amusing.

Ha! I honestly until this moment did not realize that the word “frack” had any relevance to the topic at hand. I’ve gotten into the habit of substituting variations on naughty words because I have two small kids, and “frack” is my go to word for fuck.

So totally an accident on my part. :slight_smile:

Here in Stillwater, there was one felt around 3am Saturday as well as the one late Saturday night that caused everybody on facebook to freak out within 5 minutes. I was still up late when the first one happened - having never been in a quake before, I thought my neighbors were having some extremely energetic fun until I logged on Saturday morning and found out what it really was! The night-time one was immediately after our football game ended, so thousands of people were out and about.