2015 Oklahoma Earthquake Discussion

[educator1953]

It was a 4.5.

[KayneMo]

It woke me up as well!

[bchris02]

I wonder what its going to take before they start taking wastewater injection well policy seriously.

[OkiePoke]

Confidence In Oil Hub Security Shaken By Oklahoma Earthquakes : NPR

[Bunty]

I wonder what its going to take before they start taking wastewater injection well policy seriously.

My state rep wanted to shut down all injection wells in 16 counties having earthquakes, but got nowhere with that. For now, it must be left up to the earthquakes to get strong enough so they start killing people to be taken more seriously. That could mean a bunch of lives at a time, if a well occupied old mid rise collapses.

Meanwhile, I think young people, like those graduating from higher education, should take the earthquakes seriously by leaving Oklahoma. Besides earthquakes, the state has too many other bad problems not being taken seriously. We'll see how legislators deal with those problem in next session. Do they kick all or most of them down the road for another year or make things worse.

[LocoAko]

It was a 4.5.

Eventually got upgraded to a 4.7. I somehow slept through it in NW OKC, as usual, but that's quite a doozy.

9th >= M4.0 and 65th >=M3.0 this month.

[OKCisOK4me]

Woke me up. Went back to sleep for another hour.

[Bunty]

Stillwater had an earthquake shortly before 10pm that seemed stronger than usual.

[ZYX2]

Weird, nothing has been reported by the USGS.

[ZYX2]

A quick check of Twitter shows that other people felt it too. Very strange that nothing is on the USGS page.

[Bunty]

A quick check of Twitter shows that other people felt it too. Very strange that nothing is on the USGS page.

That quake shortly before 10 pm Friday eventually did get recorded by the USGS. It was only a 2.3, located 4 mi. northeast of Stillwater. It seemed stronger than that.

[Stickman]

Shake, rattle and roll. About 5:40 this am.

[corwin1968]

That was the strongest I've felt at home and maybe equal to the strongest I've ever felt. I look forward to hearing the magnitude!

[BlackmoreRulz]

That was either right under the house or it was a dang powerful one.

[rezman]

Was getting ready to walk out the door. Pretty good shake.

[BBatesokc]

Okay, I gotta break down and buy the insurance now. Looked into it before, went back and forth, ultimately passed on it. Not this time.

[BBatesokc]

On a side note.... The one thing I've learned about earthquakes and social media..... Earthquake tweets are like fortune cookies, instead of adding "in bed", just add "that's what she said!"

[corwin1968]

Looks like it was "just" a 4.3. I guess being right on top of it makes it feel much stronger.

[rezman]

We just had our policy review a couple weeks ago and we discussed dropping it, but ultimately kept it on. It doesn't add a lot on to the premium, but it has a high deductible.

[BBatesokc]

We just had our policy review a couple weeks ago and we discussed dropping it, but ultimately kept it on. It doesn't add a lot on to the premium, but it has a high deductible.

That was our debate. Easily a $20,000 deductible and often doesn't cover things like the rock or brick that a house is made of. As long as the premium stays low I guess I'll be buying it though for that 'once in a lifetime quake.'

[Plutonic Panda]

Wow

[bchris02]

This one did some damage. Parts of Edmond are without power and from the looks of it, homes may have structural damage.

I wonder if this will be the one to finally get the state's attention or if somebody is going to have to die before they do something about wastewater injection wells.

[Brownwood]

The strategy of the oil companies is working perfectly as planned: Privatize the profits and nationalize the losses.

The energy companies denial of cause and effect is similar to what the tobacco companies used for years as it is extremely difficult to show a direct, provable, predictable link. However, our state government at least acknowledges there is some correlation with injection wells as there are mechanisms for asking producers to cease injecting within certain depth parameters. That is, if we say pretty please and the energy company agrees to the state's "order". If we truly believe there is causation, the Governor should sign an executive order to immediately cease this practice. Unfortunately this would cause our esteemed Attorney General to divert resources from fighting the removal of the 10 Commandments or suing the state of Colorado for their pot laws. You voted for it Oklahoma, you live with it.

[Bellaboo]

The strategy of the oil companies is working perfectly as planned: Privatize the profits and nationalize the losses.

The energy companies denial of cause and effect is similar to what the tobacco companies used for years as it is extremely difficult to show a direct, provable, predictable link. However, our state government at least acknowledges there is some correlation with injection wells as there are mechanisms for asking producers to cease injecting within certain depth parameters. That is, if we say pretty please and the energy company agrees to the state's "order". If we truly believe there is causation, the Governor should sign an executive order to immediately cease this practice. Unfortunately this would cause our esteemed Attorney General to divert resources from fighting the removal of the 10 Commandments or suing the state of Colorado for their pot laws. You voted for it Oklahoma, you live with it.

Shouldn't this be in the political thread ?

[okatty]

A couple of notes on the insurance issues. First, there is a waiting period for companies to write coverage after a quake of certain magnatide within a certain distance from your home - I think it is 3.5 on the scale and a 30 (maybe 60 day waiting period). If another quake happens during the waiting period then you start the clock over. Second the coverage is pretty cheap but has increased some since I first took it out about 2 years ago - still very cheap coverage (less than 10 a month).

Finally, the Ins. Commish has recently forced companies to clarify their policies to state that there is no exclusion for quakes which could be arguably caused by oil and gas activities. There was an issue as to whether these types of quakes were covered as not truly a natural cause but influenced by man made activities. All companies were required to send out a notice to people with this coverage that states there is no exclusion related to oil/gas issues.

That was a doozy this morning! Felt it strong in NW OKC - rattled the timbers so to speak.