Another earthquake in OK?

[girl gone mad]

I just felt something here in North Dallas. The whole room was shaking.

[ezgoingrl]

1. Oh yeah

I had three panicked kids on my hands.

[icymist]

2. You did! A 5.2!

Earthquake Details
This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.



Magnitude

5.2



Date-Time

Sunday, November 06, 2011 at 03:53:10 UTC
Saturday, November 05, 2011 at 10:53:10 PM at epicenter



Location

35.599°N, 96.751°W



Depth

5 km (3.1 miles)



Region

OKLAHOMA



Distances

6 km (4 miles) E (101°) from Sparks, OK
12 km (8 miles) S (174°) from Davenport, OK
14 km (9 miles) NNW (335°) from Prague, OK
33 km (20 miles) NNE (30°) from Shawnee, OK
72 km (45 miles) E (79°) from Oklahoma City, OK
311 km (194 miles) N (1°) from Dallas, TX

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/usb0006klz.php

[girl gone mad]

3. Wow.. 200 miles away?

Hope OK is okay. :(

[redqueen]

4. I felt it too.

Very mild here, 45 miles north of Dallas. Thought it was about 10:58 or so.

[tridim]

5. Lots of fracking in OK, no?

[valerief]

8. They'll never admit to it. Even after the last human in OK swallowed up by the earth,

they'll never concede it's fracking. Rich people must get richer, after all. It's the most important thing in the world.

[icymist]

6. 5.2 earthquake hits central Oklahoma after earlier shakers

OKLAHOMA CITY — A 5.2 magnitude earthquake shook central Oklahoma late Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

The quake was very shallow at 3.1 miles deep and occurred at 10:53 p.m. Central Daylight Time, the USGS said. It was centered about four miles east of the city of Sparks, or about 45 miles east of Oklahoma City.


The quake came after at least three earthquakes shook much of the same area early Saturday.

A 4.7 magnitude quake struck at 2:12 a.m. (3:12 a.m. ET), with an epicenter about six miles north of Prague in southern Lincoln County, the USGS reported on its website. That is about 50 miles east of Oklahoma City.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45173167/ns/us_news-life/

[icymist]

7. USGS just updated it to a 5.6!

That'a a respectable earthquake!

[Warpy]

9. That's something people in California just don't get

There you can be 50 miles from a quake and not feel much of anything. Once you get east of the Rockies, you can be 400 miles away and have stuff fall off shelves and cracks appear in foundations and chimneys. Quakes travel outside California and that's what makes the ones back east a little more serious.

Plus, 5.6 at 4 miles or so deep is NO JOKE.