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Earthquake in Oklahoma City - October 13, 2010

Wow form the souds of it this earthquake made some nosie. Might have been all that rock breacking below ground. There have been reports of nosiy earthquakes before but this one is jsut plain crazy. I know they do not have earthquake resistent structures in Oklaohma so this could have been really bad. Guess tornadoes are not the only thing they have to worry about anymore. Whats' next a volcano?
 
Heard on the radio there was a 3.8 in Northern Arkansas Monday morning. I would love to feel an earthquake.... where are all the earthquake predictors? Didn't hear a word about this one in OK, or I would have been there :D
 
Chance Metz said:
Wow form the souds of it this earthquake made some nosie. Might have been all that rock breacking below ground. There have been reports of nosiy earthquakes before but this one is jsut plain crazy. I know they do not have earthquake resistent structures in Oklaohma so this could have been really bad. Guess tornadoes are not the only thing they have to worry about anymore. Whats' next a volcano?
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LOL...Chance, noise with earthquakes is commonplace, not crazy at all. I've experienced countless earthquakes before in Washington, and when the earth moves, it often rumbles and you hear rattling from objects moving. The silent ones we would have would be the lower magnitude tremors that would just make our swinging lamps sway back and forth. You don't always hear that rumbling from stuff moving, but you will hear it more often than not, if it's a 4.0 or so. Also probably depends on the type of fault causing the earthquake, and how the ground is moving.

Here's my account of the event on my blog: http://bit.ly/aZTUDZ
 
I was at work when it happened but we have had roofers detouring our office for weeks so I thought the loud bang and vibrating roof was them. I don't recall anything else in our office moving or swaying including our suspended lights. My boss said everything at here place was shaking. My sister in Tulsa is on the 10th floor of an office building and she said everything in her office shook and swayed. I wish I would have felt it. Oh well.
 
I am in far north Edmond and we heard it. I didn't feel anything but the noise was incredible. I never would have guessed it to be an earthquake. Perhaps because it was my first experience.
 
I was in my office in west OKC when it occurred. I thought someone had drove a forklift into a wall at a decent amount of speed because the shaking was fairly heavy. Pretty cool to experience it.
 
Huh... we just had another "boom" a minute ago, weaker than last week. I heard it at 12:53:26 CDT. I'm not sure whether it was just a noise in the area or if it was some sort of aftershock.

Tim
 
The smoking gun...

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Note to self... do not get any jobs changing light bulbs on OKC TV towers.

Tim
 
With these being shallow events my pet theory is that it has something to do with depletion of the oil or aquifer under the area. Remove an uncompressible material with a bunch of brittle sandstone on top...

Tim
 
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