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.
Good luck...I’ve seen quakes so violent cars were bouncing off their wheels in parking lots..
My friends grandmother was hit in the head by a swinging chandelier, which knocked her down a flight of stairs.
We were at a horse sale there several years ago. They had one on Friday night and then another on Saturday night. Scared the wits out of me.
I’m in Tulsa and the first one that I felt woke me up (it was quite late). I wasn’t sure what happened, but I suspected an earthquake. I immediately got on the Intermet and confirmed that it was one. Then I put in a report to USGS, where they solicit people’s information on an earthquake that they’ve felt.
I was the only one in the house that felt it or woke up.
The next day (I think it was a day later) another quake hit and was felt in Tulsa. This time it was in the early evening and everyone was up. Everyone in the house felt that one as the house really shook for a while.
I know that those people who were close were shaken a whole lot more than we were in Tulsa.
If you go on the USGS website, you should be able to find out how many different people felt it in Oklahoma, by the reports that they submit. They are broken down by Zip Code.
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Ok, I’ll bite. How was your friend’s grandmother hit in the head with a swinging chandelier? Did she play for a WNBA team? Was she hurt and did she recover?
I can imagine ! I was in Tokyo a couple weeks ago and we felt it early morning around 2 on the Japanese scale (3.5 Richter?) but at least we knew exactly what had happened. :D
The chandelier broke lose from it’s chain, struck grandma in the forehead, knocking her down a flight of stairs.
To add insult to injury, one of the paramedics slammed the door shut on her leg when transporting her to the ER.
Thanks ... I’ve read a lot about those earthquakes and now that I’m closer to the area, it’s even of more concern (I used to be in Oregon).
Much more concerned about the do-gooders, liberals, envirowackos and libtards, communists in the white hut and muzzies, national debt and taxes than I am about wells and earthquakes.
Let me know when a well problem happens and I’ll get right on it.
If it isn’t a problem in California it isn’t going to be a problem.
This sure isn’t the first seismic event with wells involved. I’ve been through some in Colombia while drilling and not a thing happened. Wells are still there. That was 20 years ago and lots more quakes have happened since then.
I won’t be wringing my hands and looking for black swans or anything else on this score.
OU beat OSU and knocked them out of possible bowl contention.
New Madrid is in Missouri, near the border with Tennessee...far south-eastern corner of Missouri.
CT had earthquakes this past week. Not too common for them to be strong enough to be felt.
So I guess you didn’t go to the one on Sunday?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reelfoot_Lake
According to the United States Geological Survey, Reelfoot Lake was formed when the region subsided during the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811–1812.[1] Several eyewitnesses[2] reported that the Mississippi River flowed backward for 10–24 hours to fill the lake. The earthquakes resulted in several major changes in the landforms over a widespread area with shocks being felt as far away as Quebec.
Oh yeah, forgot about that, but for just a second or so.... LOL
earth quakes don’t kill you, the falling building do. Earth quakes are strange. back in the 80’s Michigan had one. I was working at the hospital at the time...on the 3 floor it felt like the large steel desk (bolted to the floor)was moving. But up on the 6th floor they felt the swaying...I guess the higher up the more small quakes are felt. ICU was on 6 and some of the patients got spooked..
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