Another earthquake in OKC today

14 years ago

I have a friend that lives near the city and thought there was an explosion - but it turns out there was another earthquake. . .here's an interesting site that shows recent earthquakes.

Here is a link that might be useful: Recent earthquakes

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Okiedawn OK Zone 7
14 years ago
Melissia,

There's a bunch of earthquakes all over the world every day, and most are insignificant in terms of their magnitude, but the OKC area seems to be getting more than their share.

I read the other day that recent research found fault lines near Jones and apparently prior to that discovery, the existence of fault lines was perhaps suspected but not proven.

I think yesterday's earthquake was Oklahoma's eleventh for 2010. At that rate, 2010 will surpass 2009's earthquake total of 27.

When we lived in the Fort Worth area, there never were quakes there but they've had several in the last couple of years (but not nearly as many as Oklahoma has seen).

I'm glad we're way down here in southern OK where the ground doesn't shake as much....although Carter County has a quake every now and then.

Dawn

Here is a link that might be useful: New Story on Jones OK Fault Lines
soonergrandmom
14 years ago
There is a fault line that begins in the Arbuckles north of Ardmore and goes across Carter County and Love County and into mid Texas. I have been wondering about that area now that Jones has had so many. A carpet installer from Ardmore told me that it is rare to find a home without a crack in the floor if it is built on a concrete pad in the Ardmore area.
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Okiedawn OK Zone 7
14 years ago
Carol,

There's only been a couple of quakes felt in Love County that I've heard of since we moved here and they were the other end of the county from us. Usually, Love County's quakes are in the uppers 3s or lower 4s in magnitude and not noticed by many. Carter County seems to have them a lot more often and Garvin County seems to have them even more often than Carter County.

Every now and then on the news they'll show a house with minor quake damage on the news....usually it is a brick house and they show how the cracks pulled the bricks away from one another leaving a gap. Once they showed a house in Carter County that 'slid' about 2" off its slab during a quake.

I've always wondered what would happen in this part of the country (all the way from Illinois down to Oklahoma) if the New Madrid fault started really acting up, and I'm not sure I can imagine what it would be like to have a large and damaging quake along that fault line.

I've linked the OGS website which has a lot of good data on quakes in Oklahoma.

Dawn

Here is a link that might be useful: Oklahoma Geological Survey