Earthquake? 12:52am 10/18/2011

[Lauri101]

Ysterday (10/28) I thought it was the cat jumping up and down on bed (he does that when he wants me to feed him and I'm sleeping past my usual 3 AM rise time). I yelled at him to go to sleep and he woke up with an indignant look on his face.

[mmonroe]

I was always curious if the earthquake were produced by by actual geological activity or if it's the way in which they remove natural grass from the ground.

[Thunder]

I was always curious if the earthquake were produced by by actual geological activity or if it's the way in which they remove natural grass from the ground.

Why would anyone want to remove natural grass?

[Lauri101]

Why would anyone want to remove natural grass?

To replace it with artificial turf? LOL

[Thunder]

To replace it with artificial turf? LOL

They have been doing that lately.

[mmonroe]

***CORRECTION***
I meant to say Natural Gas, I'm sure you knew that too Thunder, but instead of giving a seriously reply, you decided to be childish and take it the other direction.. as usual. Oh by the way, how about my double use of "by" in the previous sentence.

[mmonroe]

You had to feel that one...

[MDot]

I know I did.

[dmoor82]

Me too!I live at the Regency and the whole tower shook for about 10 seconds,and I about sharted my pants!

[Urban Pioneer]

Impressive. That was significant.

[CrimsonOberon]

Any idea yet of the epicenter of this quake?

[Snowman]

Any idea yet of the epicenter of this quake?

4 miles east of Sparks, OK. The one last night was 6 miles south east of the same city.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...quakes_big.php

[kevinpate]

4 miles east of Sparks, OK. The one last night was 6 miles south east of the same city.
...

Wonder what them bikers be up to?

[Jesseda]

I keep telling you all they have to do is return our Seattle Supersonics and I'll lift the curse.

[ZYX2]

USGS confirmed 5.6. New state record. I wonder if it caused any damage?

I sure felt it good in Bixby. A set of bunk beds was shaking real bad.

[Thunder]

Reports are flowing in on replaced grass for turf has been spotted ripped all over multiple locations. Governor Mary Fallin commented early Sunday afternoon, "This is a very sad day for the taxpayers of Oklahoma dealing with the loss of new turf recently installed. I have declared State of Emergency and requested federal assistance to help replace the damaged turf. Rest assured we will continue to replace grass for turf to prevent wildfires this Winter onward." Many calls have been flowing into the emergency command center from residents and farmers panicking since the record-breaking M5.6 quake hit shortly after 10:50pm Saturday night. Hang in there, new replacement turf is on the way.

[Lauri101]

I'm still in D.C., but my S.O. said the tremor continued for 30 full seconds. The cats started freaking out before the EQ - amazing how sensitive animals are to natural disturbances.

Various websites are saying the increased activity is due to 1)Fracking methods used by energy companies to remove gas and other resources from ground and/or 2) pending rapture/God's wrath.

What about fault lines? When you hear hoofbeats, it could be horses instead of zebras.

[Redskin 70]

whats that old rock and roll song..............?
oh yeah
Shake Rattle and Roll.........................

[mcca7596]

What about fault lines? When you hear hoofbeats, it could be horses instead of zebras.

This

[Thunder]

whats that old rock and roll song..............?
oh yeah
Shake Rattle and Roll.........................

Just watch those ole records flyin off the shelves
The kind of music Oklahoma shake themselves
....rock 'n roll....

[MikeLucky]

Various websites are saying the increased activity is due to 1)Fracking methods used by energy companies to remove gas and other resources from ground and/or 2) pending rapture/God's wrath.

Yeah, it's more likely due to the rapture than from fracking...

[kevinpate]

oh, poo, let's stop dancing around and just get real about it. the rumblings and tremors and quakes will continue until OSU Cowboys are not ranked several spots higher than the OU Sooners. Then and only then will all the dead Sooner fans stop rolling over in their graves like off-balance blenders chopping ice.

[Lauri101]

oh, poo, let's stop dancing around and just get real about it. the rumblings and tremors and quakes will continue until OSU Cowboys are not ranked several spots higher than the OU Sooners. Then and only then will all the dead Sooner fans stop rolling over in their graves like off-balance blenders chopping ice.

This is when I wish we had a "like" button!

[Lauri101]

Yeah, it's more likely due to the rapture than from fracking...

If you hadn't truncated my post, you would have seen that I was making the same point

[Stew]

And yet another earth quake -- 8:48 PM 7-nov-2011