#earthquake - shook my house. Pretty intense here in Tulsa

[OKNancy]

No word yet from USGA on the strength or epicenter. I'm sure the epicenter is in Oklahoma.
Felt from Texas to Kansas City

[OKNancy]

1. 5.8

Magnitude M 5.8
Region OKLAHOMA
Date time 2016-09-03 12:02:43.5 UTC
Location 36.40 N ; 96.93 W
Depth 2 km
Distances 401 km N of Dallas, United States / pop: 1,198,000 / local time: 07:02:43.5 2016-09-03
116 km NE of Oklahoma City, United States / pop: 580,000 / local time: 07:02:43.5 2016-09-03
13 km NW of Pawnee, United States / pop: 2,200 / local time: 07:02:43.5 2016-09-03

[malaise]

2. That's pretty strong

Stay safe

[GummyBearz]

34. That is on the edge of the fun zone

Especially when you are 10 stories up in an office building.... "uh, should we get under the desks?" ... "nah its not the big one"

[Scorpionflyx]

38. 5.8

Damn

[Cooley Hurd]

3. Wow!!!

Everyone in your house ok???

[OKNancy]

5. Oh yes... just shook the dishes.

I think the foundation is OK. If not... lol I hope USAA covers earthquake damage!!!

[Duckhunter935]

4. Felt it in Lawton

[Arkansas Granny]

6. We got a pretty good jolt in Fayetteville. It sounded like a low

rumble of thunder and the walls were shaking.

[MoonRiver]

7. Nancy, please check my recent post!

My chair was moving here in Kansas, at about the same time this earthquake hit. Wondering if I felt part of the tremor.

Hope you are safe and sound!

[Warpy]

8. Closest to Pawnee, halfway between Enid and Tulsa

This is strong enough to crack foundations and knock brick chimneys down, not to mention rearrange kitchens near the epicenter.

Quakes don't have to be that strong to do damage if they're shallow and close.

[OKNancy]

12. just heard on local news that there is damage in Pawnee n/t

[crabsley]

9. So sorry, I truly hope everyone is ok.

But i hope it shook the frack out of the oil companies

[Hortensis]

10. Think earthquake putty for holding small stuff in place. :)

Also, definitely bolting anything over beds and couches to the walls.

Just seems a good time for a supplement to a 5.6-5.8 incentive. Hope all are well.

[GreenEyedLefty]

11. It's important for people outside of Oklahoma and Texas to understand why this is happening.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/drilling-for-earthquakes/

This article is sobering.

Why our legislature here in Michigan would allow fracking and deep injection wells to happen right on top of one of the largest sources of fresh water on Earth, is beyond me.

[HereSince1628]

15. This one fell pretty close to the map of probability of fracking related earthquake damage

that's included in that article.

It's hard for me to understand how US and MI let pipelines run -on the surface- of the Michigan lake bottom, and now they want to run that abbrasive stuff from up north through them.

I suppose -the plan-, wherein nothing goes wrong, looks good on paper.

[GreenEyedLefty]

23. Prior to the arrival of fracking, Oklahoma averaged 2 earthquakes per year

That number has risen to 2 earthquakes per DAY.

The likelihood of this morning's earthquake being linked to human activity has got to be close to 100%. Scary stuff!

[riderinthestorm]

40. Fracking is indefensible. nt

[Runningdawg]

13. On the NW side of Tulsa

at first we thought it was a tornado. But we quickly realized we were wrong. Everything shook good and long. Nothing broke but it sure rattled.

[OKNancy]

14. tied the one in 2011, but this one was much stronger as far as shaking and length

LOL - saw a tweet by Rea Drummond ( Pioneer Woman). She was kind of freaked out.

[malaise]

16. Where is Madokie??

Word is there is quite some damage - from Jeff Masters blog

Damage reports coming as far away as SW OKC. Feel for those people in and around Pawnee. Some significant damage already reported to homes and buildings.

[OKNancy]

17. I think he lives in eastern Oklahoma

I don't think he would have any problems

[malaise]

19. Cool - thanks n/t

[LongTomH]

37. I called family down in Northeast Oklahoma, they felt it.

No damage; but, they did feel it. I felt it here in KC.

[OKNancy]

18. damage at a grocery in Pawnee

[GWC58]

21. I hope

no one was seriously hurt. I remember back in August 2011, while with our son at his school, there was an earthquake somewhere in Virginia. The floor moved back and forth. It felt like we were in a trailer. At that time we lived in St. Mary's County, Maryland.

[woodsprite]

41. We felt that one in Delaware as well.

I'm in IT and a very secure building. Somehow someone had missed writing rules on what to do in an earthquake. We all just kinda sat at our desks and looked at eachother weighing what to do. It's a cement and brick building with only a few main support areas. All open cubbies and only 2 stairwells - not enough safe space for 160 people. We decided if it ever happened again, we'd assemble in the parking lot away from the building just in case things collapsed.

[Duckhunter935]

26. Wow!

Cleanup in aisle 1,2,3....

[malaise]

20. Coverage on CNN now n/t

[DVRacer]

22. Checking in

I was sound asleep in Owasso and it woke me up. We had a few things fall but the waves made me sick to my stomach.

https://stateimpact.npr.org/oklahoma/2015/06/01/gov-fallin-signs-bill-to-prevent-towns-cities-and-counties-from-banning-fracking/

This was our Government in action in the response to all this crap.

[littlebit]

24. I am parked at the Pilot truck stop in Joplin.

I was laying in the bunk when it happened. I thought someone backed into my truck.

[PSPS]

25. It's Bartcop spinning in his grave.

[CBGLuthier]

27. We were up and had turned on the attic fan. I thought the fan was coming off its mounting

and shaking the house. That was a fairly intense one.

[Iliyah]

28. Hugs!

A sizeable one. Los Angeles here sending positive vibes!

[leftyladyfrommo]

29. Felt it here in Kansas City.

I didn't but I was eating at Perkins. My neighbors said the whole house just kind of rocked. We are 189 miles away.

[smirkymonkey]

30. Wow! Hope you are all ok.

The whole earth seems to be shaking up these days. Italy, Iceland, Myanmar, New Zealand and now the Midwestern US. Very scary.

[liberal N proud]

31. My daughter reported things shaking on store shelves in Northern Missouri.

[OkSustainAg]

32. I was going outside

to take care of the goats when in happened here by lake Oologah in OK.

[OKNancy]

33. Awww my daughter and her girl friend are raising goats

on their farm east of Tulsa. They just traveled all the way to North Carolina and Virginia to pick up some new goats.

[Behind the Aegis]

35. Woke everyone up here.

Freaked out the birds and at least one chihuahua...and me. This one shook for awhile and was pretty damn big, at least for us.

(Nancy, USAA does have earthquake insurance and it is pretty reasonable, at least when I got. To my knowledge they are still allowing for coverage in OK.)

[lunatica]

39. Sobering isn't it?

I live in the SF Bay Area. It's always a bit scary.