Oklahoma earthquakes

[ad4mg]

I heard about Friday's quake(s) from a friend who lives in central Oklahoma. Looks like last night's quake was a bit more powerful, a 5.6 magnitude.

Anyone here in the affected area?

5.6 magnitude quake rattles Oklahoma (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57319290/5.6-magnitude-quake-rattles-oklahoma/?tag=stack)

[N7YA]

Thats it....END OF DAYS!!

[W5GA]

Not in the affected area, but my brother was up and about. He's visiting from Ca., noted the shake, went on about his business. The wife and I did not wake up. The epicenter was ~150 miles west. News reports here say some road buckling occurred, and a boulder the size of an SUV fell on one road. Some house damage from chimneys falling down, etc.

[kf0rt]

A boulder fell in Oklahoma? From where?

(sorry)

[W5GA]

A boulder fell in Oklahoma? From where?

(sorry)
We DO have foothills here (the locals call them mountains). In fact, the Kiamichi's are the only mountain range in the country that runs E-W v. N-S.

[ad4mg]

A boulder fell in Oklahoma? From where?

(sorry)
Colorado. It fell into the panhandle ... :lol:

(sorry, Doug ...)

[kf0rt]

I must have had Oklahoma confused with Kansas.

http://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume9/v9i3/kansas.html

[W5GA]

Now that's funny!

[K7SGJ]

But, when you heap on the butter and a good thick maple syrup, they become equal.

[NQ6U]

Not in the affected area, but my brother was up and about. He's visiting from Ca., noted the shake, went on about his business.

Yep, that's a Californian for you. Magnitude 5.6 would make one pause from drinking his/her coffee for a moment while waiting to see if this was The Big One, then shrug it off and go right back to reading the morning paper.

[W4GPL]

My friend's parents are in that immediate area, the quake knocked their manufactured home off the foundation by a couple of inches.

[KG4CGC]

Obama did it.

[WØTKX]

I must have had Oklahoma confused with Kansas.

http://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume9/v9i3/kansas.html

This is why I love science! :rofl:

[ab1ga]

I'm telling you, that hydro-fracking is going to be nothing but trouble.... :)

[PA5COR]

Didn't feel a thing here in the Netherlands...;)
Though the 1st test fracking drilling here was stopped because of micro quakes, 2.2 to 2.6.

[kf0rt]

Didn't feel a thing here in the Netherlands...;)
Though the 1st test fracking drilling here was stopped because of micro quakes, 2.2 to 2.6.

Does that mean there's no frickin' frackin' in the Netherlands?

[PA5COR]

They're done fracking here, orders of the Government.
Never knew why they were doing it in the first place, we still have enough natural gas in our ground to last decades or a century or so...

[W1GUH]

Ahhhhh....so THIS is what Starbuck and Apollo were referring to. There were always saying, "Oh, frack!"

[K7SGJ]

Damn, ya beat me to it.

[W1GUH]

Damn, ya beat me to it.

"Oh frack! ya beat me to it?"