Funny...my daughter and her friend and I were out on foot, not more than a few blocks from where Pete felt it, but we didn't notice a thing! My husband, working up in the 63rd/Portland area, said it shook their windows and was clearly felt.

I was just reading that Arkansas had similar quake issues, they declared a moratorium on wastewater injection, and then their quakes stopped. Interesting that there has been no mention of this whatsoever in the Oklahoma media or by any politician.

I was just reading that Arkansas had similar quake issues, they declared a moratorium on wastewater injection, and then their quakes stopped. Interesting that there has been no mention of this whatsoever in the Oklahoma media or by any politician.

Arkansas has had 15 earthquakes since last October so they have hardly stopped even if they aren't particularly strong.

Earthquakes (http://www.geology.ar.gov/geohazards/earthquakes.htm)

This is a listing of all Arkansas earthquakes for last year and they are fairly consistent with little change at all.

http://www.geology.ar.gov/geohazards/historic_earthquakes.htm

Arkansas has had 15 earthquakes since last October so they have hardly stopped even if they aren't particularly strong.

Earthquakes (http://www.geology.ar.gov/geohazards/earthquakes.htm)

This is a listing of all Arkansas earthquakes for last year and they are fairly consistent with little change at all.

Historic Earthquakes (http://www.geology.ar.gov/geohazards/historic_earthquakes.htm)
But on the worst days Oklahoma can have 15 or more earthquakes.

Funny...my daughter and her friend and I were out on foot, not more than a few blocks from where Pete felt it, but we didn't notice a thing! My husband, working up in the 63rd/Portland area, said it shook their windows and was clearly felt.

The fact that so many people don't feel the quakes when they happen, no doubt, helps explain why the Oklahoma Legislature or OCC feels obligated to do no more than it is doing, such as totally shut down all waste injection wells in quake prone counties. And, of course, most people sleep through them when the quakes happen in the middle of the night.

Funny...my daughter and her friend and I were out on foot, not more than a few blocks from where Pete felt it, but we didn't notice a thing! My husband, working up in the 63rd/Portland area, said it shook their windows and was clearly felt.

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I just thought it was strange because I usually *do* feel them when indoors. It would seem that we'd have felt that big one, being right there on the pavement. Then again, maybe being indoors and seeing things move/hearing them rattle gives a better reference point.

I just thought it was strange because I usually *do* feel them when indoors. It would seem that we'd have felt that big one, being right there on the pavement. Then again, maybe being indoors and seeing things move/hearing them rattle gives a better reference point.I haven't felt any of them walking outside yet.

I have an ex-wife that lived in Burbank until her early twenties. One of the reasons she moved here was her hatred of earthquakes. She used to tell me about going outside during earthquakes because they were really noticeable inside but not so much outside unless they were pretty bad.

Arkansas has had 15 earthquakes since last October so they have hardly stopped even if they aren't particularly strong.

Earthquakes (http://www.geology.ar.gov/geohazards/earthquakes.htm)

This is a listing of all Arkansas earthquakes for last year and they are fairly consistent with little change at all.

Historic Earthquakes (http://www.geology.ar.gov/geohazards/historic_earthquakes.htm)

Perhaps my words were a bit loose, but your response is aimed at being misleading. So allow me to be crystal clear:

"A study headed by Scott Ausbrooks, geohazards supervisor for the Arkansas Geological Survey, showed a severe drop in the number of seismic events in the area shortly after the temporary moratorium was put in place March 4. In the 18 days prior to the temporary shutdown of the wells, there were 85 events of 2.5 magnitude or greater, but only 20 in the 18 days after March 4, about a 75 percent drop, he said."

Source:

Permanent disposal-well moratorium issued (http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2011/jul/31/permanent-disposal-well-moratorium-issued-20110731/)

The Arkansas Gazette article goes on to state that the temporary moratorium was made permanent after the severe drop in seismic activity.

Your move OKC media.

Perhaps my words were a bit loose, but your response is aimed at being misleading. So allow me to be crystal clear:[/B]

I had no intention at all to be misleading. It was a truthful response to your post, which you admitted was not clear.

From: https://twitter.com/pmonies/status/699653940686630912

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CbWrXmQVIAA0VL-.png:large

Hopefully, all oil companies will comply. With the price of oil so low, there shouldn't be much greed to motivate doing otherwise.

40% reduction. Well, it's a start I suppose.

Alright ljbab728, my bad.

David has an interesting post... does anyone know if that press release or whatever it is from the OCC has any power of law behind it?

There oughta be a law a'gin' lubricatin' geological faults in the name of progress. Dang. Who made the rule that "Oil Money" is "Easy Money"? I actually felt a bit guilty and sympathetic filling up the tank at the local Love's at under 20 dollars. After reading the newspaper headlines about the lay-offs and whatnots . . . Then, I thought to myself . . . well, at least Russia and OPEC is takin' care o' business . . .

Does anyone have the UC Berkeley MyShake app installed?

Does anyone have the UC Berkeley MyShake app installed?

I do -- though I can't figure out if I have to have it actively running (with the icon in the notification bar) in order for it to be working or if it works in the background. Either way, pretty cool idea.

I do -- though I can't figure out if I have to have it actively running (with the icon in the notification bar) in order for it to be working or if it works in the background. Either way, pretty cool idea.

It keeps that icon in the bar to keep Android / iphone from shutting it down. It is a more persistence state.

I installed it but at the bottom it say, "waiting for phone to steady", even after setting on the dresser for 9 hours. Anyone else have that message?

I installed it but at the bottom it say, "waiting for phone to steady", even after setting on the dresser for 9 hours. Anyone else have that message?

You sure there weren't small earthquakes for 9 hours straight? This is Oklahoma, after all.... ;)

I installed it but at the bottom it say, "waiting for phone to steady", even after setting on the dresser for 9 hours. Anyone else have that message?

Every time you pick it up or handle it, it will say that.

Felt another big one downtown

Well hello........every time I hear that I half way expect to see a semi truck drive thru the front door.

last night at about 8:35 and again this morning at about 2:38. I heard them both coming right before the "kick". Any word on intensities?.

Shook us out of bed as we live very close to the 3.9 this morning.

According to my Quake Feed App:

2/22 12:56am 2.8 Edmond
2/22 6:48pm 2.9 Edmond
2/22 8:08pm 2.6 Edmond
2/22 8:35pm 3.5 Edmond
2/23 2:44am 3.9 Edmond
2/23 2:51am 2.9 Edmond
2/23 3:37am 2.8 Edmond
2/23 8:16am 2.8 Edmond

Shook us out of bed as we live very close to the 3.9 this morning.

According to my Quake Feed App:

2/22 12:56am 2.8 Edmond
2/22 6:48pm 2.9 Edmond
2/22 8:08pm 2.6 Edmond
2/22 8:35pm 3.5 Edmond
2/23 2:44am 3.9 Edmond
2/23 2:51am 2.9 Edmond
2/23 3:37am 2.8 Edmond
2/23 8:16am 2.8 Edmond

Wow, they don't get that persistent in Stillwater. They're too far away to be felt in Stillwater, but I sure hope the State Capitol isn't too far away to feel them. But far too many of them are not happening during working hours.

I've been feeling rumbles all day. Will be curious to see if this turns out to be the most active tremor day in this area.

good timing, seeing how there's an earthquake forum in edmond today at 4:30 at UCO. erin brockovich is the keynote speaker.

Shook us out of bed as we live very close to the 3.9 this morning.

According to my Quake Feed App:

2/22 12:56am 2.8 Edmond
2/22 6:48pm 2.9 Edmond
2/22 8:08pm 2.6 Edmond
2/22 8:35pm 3.5 Edmond
2/23 2:44am 3.9 Edmond
2/23 2:51am 2.9 Edmond
2/23 3:37am 2.8 Edmond
2/23 8:16am 2.8 Edmond

Wow. Quite active. Thanks BBates. I'll have to look into that app.

I guess I'm not that sensistive to to the tremmors in the 2's. Seems I'm missed a lot of of them. I heard rumblings today at the shop, but it it's hard to tell if it's actually quake activity, or just heavy trucks and machinery on the dock or driving by.

Anyone make it to the forum Yesterday?

Anyone make it to the forum Yesterday?

Didn't make it but this blog says about 500-600 people were there:


Brockovich, whose life was made into a 2000 Hollywood film starring Julia Roberts for her work in protecting a water supply in California in the early 1990s, was adamant that “politics should not come into play” when it comes to the impact of hydraulic fracturing on the environment. It’s a non-partisan issue or at least it should be, she said. She referred to Oklahoma as the “earthquake capital of the world,” and admitted she has a difficult time even believing it.

She also argued that the oil and gas industry and their supporters have tried to make people feel like they’re “crazy” when they report felt earthquakes or other natural and real environmental issues, such as polluted water. That’s why, she argued, it’s important to believe in your senses and intellectual capabilities about the natural environment and treat with skepticism people simply motivated by money when it comes to clean water and air.

The environmentalist also said the Oklahoma earthquake crisis had created even more anxiety in Oklahoma, which, as we all know, already deals with deadly tornadoes on a regular basis, and she was especially concerned about the psychological impact of it on children. She was at a lunch earlier in the day, she said, when someone brought up the question of “what if you’re in a tornado shelter and an earthquake happens?” It might be more funny if it wasn’t now a very real possibility.

Edmond Earthquake Forum, Brockovich Draw Hundreds; Morrissette To Run For Corporation Commission | blueoklahoma.org (http://blueoklahoma.org/index.php/2016/02/24/edmond-earthquake-forum-brockovich-draw-hundreds-morrissette-to-run-for-corporation-commission/)

""She was at a lunch earlier in the day, she said, when someone brought up the question of “what if you’re in a tornado shelter and an earthquake happens?” It might be more funny if it wasn’t now a very real possibility"".

We actually have had tornados and earthquakes on the same day... Back in Dec 2014 If I remember correctly, so the idea is not out of the question.

Somehow didn't feel the 4.0 in Langston this morning, though it did wake my friend up in Stillwater. Anyone feel it? That's relatively close for a 4.0 which have been primarily much further NW.

Edit: Downgraded to 3.6.

I've heard lots of people describe these earthquakes as if something exploded. I've felt dozens of these over the past few years and none "to me" felt like explosions, UNTIL TODAYS. I live about half way between Langston and downtown Guthrie and this mornings sounded like 4 explosions, all within about 5 or 6 seconds.


Somehow didn't feel the 4.0 in Langston this morning, though it did wake my friend up in Stillwater. Anyone feel it? That's relatively close for a 4.0 which have been primarily much further NW.

Edit: Downgraded to 3.6.

To me they have sound more like thunder, sometimes like nearby thunder and loud, and other times like distant thunder. But unlike real thunder, it has more of an explosive characteristic in the sound.

I bet most people as I did slept through the earthquake by Langston and helps explain why not more is being done about the earthquakes. In my opinion, all injection wells in earthquake prone counties, which is around 16 of them, should be shut down for 6 months to a year to see if that works to settle down the earthquakes. While oil prices are so low, why continue to wait around to see if the earthquakes step up their game by collapsing buildings and killing people? But for now, the oil companies might as well be pleased that most of the earthquakes have been happening during non working hours at the State Capitol.

I haven't heard one. I really never thought about them making a sound. They've all been just a creak of the house like a big gust of wind. That was until the one a couple weeks ago the shook the house for about 20 seconds. Still no sound though.

Some time around the 2011 "big one", when we lived out by Arcadia, my wife and I were out talking across the fence with our neighbor when a decent sized roller came through. It made a thunderous sound that increased quickly to a boom as the ground jumped and shook,and then fading thunder as it passed. It was like a huge ripple that quickly came from east to west and passed underneath us.

I haven't heard one. I really never thought about them making a sound. They've all been just a creak of the house like a big gust of wind. That was until the one a couple weeks ago the shook the house for about 20 seconds. Still no sound though.

I've heard of bunch of earthquakes and many of them quite startled me. On very rare occasion they come with a sound like a sudden gust of wind. The more distant ones, like the Fairview 5.1, don't come with a loud sound to me.

I haven't heard one. I really never thought about them making a sound. They've all been just a creak of the house like a big gust of wind. That was until the one a couple weeks ago the shook the house for about 20 seconds. Still no sound though.

Same. I've felt a couple now and have never heard any of them make any noise.

Same. I've felt a couple now and have never heard any of them make any noise.

Neither have I (or at least not that I have realized). It's unsettling enough to feel it, I can't imagine actually seeing it ripple.

Neither have I (or at least not that I have realized). It's unsettling enough to feel it, I can't imagine actually seeing it ripple.

The ripple we felt wasn't anything we could see, but we felt the whole area rise up and back down quickly as it passed. We all had the same sensation, and observed the same east to west sound.

The ripple we felt wasn't anything we could see, but we felt the whole area rise up and back down quickly as it passed. We all had the same sensation, and observed the same east to west sound.

The first earthquake I experienced was the first big one we had in Oklahoma several years ago and I heard what sounded like an explosion before that one hit. I was on the SW side of OKC at the time. I felt one here at home in NW OKC about a year ago that was an East-to-West wave. It was very strange to feel a directional earthquake. My wife said she felt one last night but I haven't seen anything online about it.

OCC releases plan to address central Oklahoma earthquakes | Oklahoma City - OKC - KOCO.com (http://www.koco.com/news/OCC-releases-plan-to-address-central-Oklahoma-earthquakes/38380908)

OCC releases plan to address central Oklahoma earthquakes | Oklahoma City - OKC - KOCO.com (http://www.koco.com/news/OCC-releases-plan-to-address-central-Oklahoma-earthquakes/38380908)

Thx for that, interesting to read all the details and how quickly they're doing it, and about damn time they did something fairly responsible, it's a shame it took them so long. I found this part kind of funny - pretty big journey from "Ain't us, noway, nohow, no evidence, can't blame us" to finally admit there's "very close correlation"...

"The seismic events that occurred during the week of January 4th, 2016, in the
Fairview area appear to have a very close correlation to the storms that created
power outages in such area. It is believed that the power outage may have
created a situation where a number of producing wells were shut in, and then
simultaneously came back on line. When the wells began producing again, this
apparently resulted in a tremendous volume of produced water being disposed
into the Arbuckle formation at the same time. The OGCD recommends that in the
future when a power outage of this magnitude occurs, the production volumes be
staged or phased in over a period of time."

Oklahoma among highest earthquake risk, according to USGS report | News OK (http://newsok.com/oklahoma-among-highest-risk-areas-for-earthquakes-in-the-u.s./article/5487987)

Oklahoma among highest earthquake risk, according to USGS report | News OK (http://newsok.com/oklahoma-among-highest-risk-areas-for-earthquakes-in-the-u.s./article/5487987)

Oklahoma City with a 5-10% chance of a damaging earthquake in the next year.

Oklahoma among highest earthquake risk, according to USGS report | News OK (http://newsok.com/oklahoma-among-highest-risk-areas-for-earthquakes-in-the-u.s./article/5487987)

Maybe that means insurance for earthquakes will go up.

Pretty sure I felt the one earlier...I had headphones in and felt some shaking. By the time I took them out it had stopped.

I thought I felt one around midnight.. It was a pretty quick jolt.

Yep, I noted a very quick shock at 11:51 p.m. last night.

Yep, I noted a very quick shock at 11:51 p.m. last night.

Looks like there was a 4.2 outside of Crescent at 11:53 pm.

Oklahoma among highest earthquake risk, according to USGS report | News OK (http://newsok.com/oklahoma-among-highest-risk-areas-for-earthquakes-in-the-u.s./article/5487987)

Covered by the Washington Post:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/03/28/new-seismic-hazard-map-includes-fracking-related-quakes-for-the-first-time/

https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2016/03/Seis1.jpg&w=1484

Stillwater earthquake at around 3pm, 3/29. It made my French doors or whatever it was rattle. First time I sensed one in several weeks.

Looks like there was a 4.2 outside of Crescent at 11:53 pm.

Woke me up.

I'm on the 3rd floor of an old remodeled building and the floors really bounce with any decent shake.

Stillwater earthquake at around 3pm, 3/29. It made my French doors or whatever it was rattle. First time I sensed one in several weeks.

It was just a magnitude 2.5, centered 3 mi. ESE of Stillwater, in or near an area of oil field activity. The magnitude may be low but they tend to make a definite impression when that nearby. This is from an old hot spot that may be trying to come back to life. One past earthquake from that area a year or two ago was blamed on toppling a kennel wall on a woman at the Stillwater Humane Society. She was not seriously hurt.

We just felt that one! broke an antique picture frame :(

Felt that one here downtown...

Shook longer than any of the previous quakes I've felt.

Yeah, pretty strong up in Edmond too. One of if not the strongest I've felt.

Pretty strong at my place near Overholser!