Posted on 11/05/2011 9:06:07 PM PDT by optiguy
That one felt bigger here in south OKC than yesterdays.
Yes that’s the one...upgraded from a 5.2 to 5.6.
Seems substantially larger than the one this morning in OK... Hope for their sake, it's not foreshock for a really big one..
Yeah, it was a long quake. I slept through the earlier one. I’m not worried about the asteroid, but I do think something is coming near us, that the powers who be, don’t want us to be aware of. The sun is reacting to something.
Congrats on the 5 year sober wagon. That’s dedication.
Just drive around until you see a dude that looks like Cheech or Chong. They’ll be able to help you out.
You’re incredibly misinformed.
Felt the rattle here in Bellevue/Omaha NE.
Great. So now I’ve got earthquakes AND tornados. Just can’t win for losing.
5.6 is a pretty fair size shaker. Even in California we would feel that one. Might not get all that excited about it but at least we would take note.
You traded earthquakes for tornados and now you have both.
I have been trying to figure this swarm out all day....sheesh.
Indeed.
There is no hydrofracking in the earthquake area. Please do not lend credence to junk science.
I always thought we here in SoCal were the only ones to have quakes, then I saw this report on TV how there are many fault lines that go through the midwest and the east coast, I had no idea that quakes can happen anywhere. I guess it doesn’t matter where you live, a natural disaster can happen anywhere, from tornadoes to hurricanes to earthquakes, just with quakes you have no warning
The ranger on Wild Earth’s safari drive (on the internet) just mentioned that the earthquake was 5.2. Never thought I’d get details from a wild life preserve in Africa.
I agree. Oklahoma is full of faults and foldings and all sorts of interesting geological features. They are not as active as in California, but they are there for a reason.
The faults and folds account for the nice oil and gas fields we have here in the first place. Fracking in old fields probably does have some slight effect that, if you were talented and had expensive measuring tools set up, could be detected.
But, this earthquake DEFINITELY was not one caused by jamming some frack fluids down a well bore. This was Mother Nature herself making an “adjustment.”
Oldplayer
In the 1800’s there was an estimated 8.0 in the Mississippi area. Reversed the flow of the River for several hours. This fault line is in the Arkansas/Oklahoma area. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Madrid_Seismic_Zone
So that fault line can create the same size quake as the San Andreas can here?
8.0 holy cow, if that same quake happened today, the damage it would create would be catastrophic
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