Oklahoma Earthquake Activity

[venture]

Nothing more so far today. While I would find it very interesting to have some sort of volcanic activity near...don't get my hopes up. :-P

[Luke]

Our earthquakes made the front page of Drudge today.

[westsidesooner]

This isnt Oklahoma related but I didnt want to start a new thread.

There were at least two more strong earthquakes in the phillipines today..
one was 7.3 the other was 7.8. Hawaii is under a tsunami advisory for this evening, which ay be upgraded to a warning later. Thats a lot of earthquakes on the same plate boundary over the last couple of weeks. Kinda makes you wonder whats going on down there.

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[venture]

Definitely a lot of slipping of the plates down there. Probably a good thing this is happen, because with the magnitude of these...if it is was just one major quake - I would hate to see how much power it would have.

[westsidesooner]

No kidding about it being good that all that energy wasnt released in one mega-quake. Can you imagine? It still seems unusual for 5+ >7. quakes to occur on the same boundary in just a two/three week period. You gotta feel for those people down there. Maybe Australia is tired of being an island continent and has decided to move north to join Asia.

[venture]

Information on today's quake:

Magnitude 3.0 - OKLAHOMA

[jstanthrnme]

Appearantly there was another small earthquake a little while ago near Choctaw.

edit: 2.6 at 11:47 http://http://earthquake.usgs.gov/ea...us2009pian.php

[venture]

Looks like I missed another 3.1 from earlier in the week.

Magnitude 3.1 - OKLAHOMA

[Bunty]

Sorry, the link didn't work.

[venture]

Links expire once they drop off the "latest" list for USGS.

[flintysooner]

We felt the one at 11:44 today (Dec 7, 2009) here in Moore.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...us2009pxbd.php
3.5

[mugofbeer]

Son of a buck! Whats going on?

[venture]

So far nothing approaching the 1952 quake (5.5) or anything above 4.0...though I'm sure it'll eventually happen again. At least we are getting these weaker quakes instead of letting it all build up for something stronger.

[mugofbeer]

I just don't remember 10% of the activity as we've had lately. Seems they are getting significantly more frequent.

[flintysooner]

I clearly recall the 1952 earthquake. I was 4 and I remember I was running outside. Suddenly I was just flat on the ground with no idea how or why. When I entered our little house my mother was cleaning up something that had fallen off the wall and broken.

[venture]

This morning's quake:

Magnitude 3.1 - OKLAHOMA

[HVAC Instructor]

I felt it!! Thought I was dreaming around 5:30 this morning. The bed was shaking, I opened my eyes and the digital alarm clock was shaking. Dayum!

Reckon I wasn't dreaming afterall.

[Thunder]

Something big is about to happen.

[TaoMaas]

Something big is about to happen.

I don't want to believe it, but I think you're right. We've had a LOT of seismic activity over the last year or two. There's a chance that it's nothing out of the ordinary and we're just hearing about it more now than in the past, but I don't think so. pla

[venture]

This morning's 3.4...

Magnitude 3.4 - OKLAHOMA

[HVAC Instructor]

Guess I wasn't dreaming this morning either. Must have woke right at the end, the quaking only seemed to last about 2 seconds and didn't seem as strong as the day before. This seems like 3 days in a row, because my wife thinks she felt a small tremor Friday afternoon.

[mmonroe]

felt it, before 3am

[Bunty]

Maybe the interior of the earth is settling after many years of gas and oil being withdrawn from it.

[mugofbeer]

There's not much drilling activity in that part of the county is there?

[venture]

Here is the list of earthquakes since the 13th.

DATE TIME (UTC) COUNTY ST MM MAGNITUDES LATITUDE LONGITUDE DEPTH SM
YYYY MMM DD HH MM SS.SS 3Hz mblg km
2009 DEC 15 15:39:15 UTC OKLAHOMA OK F 2.4 35.57N 97.28W 5.00
2009 DEC 17 23:52:01 UTC OKLAHOMA OK F 2.2 35.56N 97.28W 5.00
2009 DEC 18 02:25:39 UTC OKLAHOMA OK F 2.8 35.54N 97.27W 5.00
2009 DEC 20 05:05:20 UTC OKLAHOMA OK F 3.0 35.54N 97.29W 5.00

National Science Foundation will be starting a project next year for 2-3 years that will bring more seismic monitoring equipment to the state. Would be interesting to see what is actually going on down there.

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