Posted on 12/07/2013 10:52:46 AM PST by oxcart
OKLAHOMA CITY -
A 4.5 magnitude earthquake rocked central Oklahoma Saturday afternoon.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the earthquake was recorded at 12:10 p.m. Its epicenter was located four miles northwest of Jones, seven miles east of Edmond, nine miles north, northwest of Choctaw, and 14 miles northeast of Oklahoma City.
It was about five miles deep.
Residents across Oklahoma reported feeling the earthquake just after 12 p.m. Saturday. It lasted several seconds.
News 9 viewers in many Oklahoma cities, including Oklahoma City, Edmond, Stillwater, Tulsa, Harrah, Mustang, and Guthrie, reported feeling the earthquake.
We also felt it right here at our News 9 station in Oklahoma City.
Uh oh...
NO
I think we all know by now Obama will marshal any and every corrupt force to subdue his enemies ... but how on earth did he cause an earthquake???
Now being reported as a 4.8. Either way, it was the biggest we have had in this area.......red
Old Article: Fault Line Runs Right Through Oklahoma City
Yes but the question is?
A Black Swan Event
What does a strong earthquake do to fracking wells/holes and can a large earthquake bust a bunch of fracking casings and pollute the water table on a large scale before the crews can individually repair these.
Oh, cone on! The NM earthquake started in 1812 and ended in 1814. I doubt anyone in Oklahoma was there to record it. The NM is a very deep fault and runs all through the Mississippi drainage with branches up into Ohio.
You lost me on that comment. Are you saying that the faults in Oklahoma are connected with the ones around New Madrid?
That’s a real knee-slapper!
I’ve had lots of relatives in OK tell me they will put up with tornadoes but wouldn’t tolerate all those earthquakes we have along the west coast.
Ha!
Star Traveler is correct. Not the New Madrid. Different faults. Nemaha Ridge and Humboldt Fault. Not that there wouldn’t be a chain reaction, though.
Yeah, Oklahoma has faults. I’ve seen them listed on some earthquake maps in the past.
When you said that Oklahoma is not near the New Madrid area and not connected to the New Madrid faults I (if that’s what you’re saying) — I do believe that’s what I was saying, in that they are not connected. Perhaps that’s not clear in my statement.
I don’t know if they are or not. Most of those mid-continental faults are miles deep and don’t seem to move often enough to be recorded. The one under OKC seems to be active on an ongoing basis but as to what that means...?
As for my comment, I was responding to the statement concerning whether the infamous NM earthquake of 1812-1814 could be felt in OK.
I answered that there probably wasn’t anyone there who could record the event.
Those in the midwest will freak when the big one hits along the Mississippi.
The ground will shake so violently, their soil will turn into liquefaction which essentially turns the soil into quicksand like oatmeal consistency..
Houses and buildings slowly sink right into the ground and many times the earth just burps them back up when the aftershocks hit.
I do believe I’ve seen maps that indicate how a New Madrid earthquake would be felt and the kind of damage it would do. It was on a Roman Numeral scale - and in Oklahoma there would not be a lot of serious damage, although it would be felt.
I thought our upstairs hot water heater exploded here in Edmond. This one was worse than the 5.4 a couple of years ago. Instead of a slowly growing rumble and shake, this was a huge explosion that shook everything and then rumbled slowly for close to a minute.
I can’t imagine what it is like in Kali, going through bigger earthquakes. Our problem is that our houses and buildings are not built for this. Found several new cracks along some seams and our house is already piered to bedrock.
Hopefully you guys in the midwest don’t use brick or mason, as that is the first thing that cracks and turns to sand.
Here in CA, we put in a seismic foundation, which consist of 400 little shock absorbers in the sub-floor just above the foundation. When the bigger earthquakes hit, our home just bounces up and down slightly, while our neighbors homes crack and fall apart.
Most houses here are made of brick. Ours is mostly stone. Unfortunately, I don’t think they are made to shake.
There was an earthquake that lasted for almost 2 years?
LOL ... no, it was a series of earthquakes, over a span of time.
Oh man, I’d hate to have been alive at that time and going through that. I probably would’ve thought the world was ending.
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