M5.6 - 14km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma

[MowCowWhoHow III]

Source: USGS

Review Status
REVIEWED
Magnitude
5.6 mb
Depth
6.6 km
Time
2016-09-03
12:02:44.790 (UTC)

Read more: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10006jxs#executive

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M 5.8 - OKLAHOMA - 2016-09-03 12:02:43 UTC (EMSC)

Magnitude M 5.8
Region OKLAHOMA
Date time 2016-09-03 12:02:43.4 UTC
Location 36.40 N ; 96.93 W
Depth 2 km
Distances 401 km N of Dallas, United States / pop: 1,198,000 / local time: 07:02:43.4 2016-09-03
116 km NE of Oklahoma City, United States / pop: 580,000 / local time: 07:02:43.4 2016-09-03
13 km NW of Pawnee, United States / pop: 2,200 / local time: 07:02:43.4 2016-09-03

http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=528303

[OKNancy]

1. thanks, I was looking for that

It was scary!!!

[workinclasszero]

2. My step daughter in Nebraska felt this thing happening!

[TheDebbieDee]

3. I felt it here in Kansas City...

I heard things rattling in my room, then I felt thumping under my bed, then I felt/heard something heavy being moved around on my roof...

[workinclasszero]

4. YES!

I was sleeping and i felt vibration but thought I was dreaming then my wife texted me about my step daughter in NE feeling it.

Wow...crazy!

[Arkansas Granny]

5. I'm visiting in Fayetteville, AR this weekend. Shook the house

pretty good. Wasn't strong enough to knock things off shelves, but sure got our attention.

[HereSince1628]

6. Among the multitude of fracking-related quakes, where does a 5.6-5.8 sit?

Just wondering

[Duckhunter935]

7. Strong

Most 2-3

[HereSince1628]

12. Less than common is sort of what I thought.

I did go looking and found another one listed for OK in 2011 at 5.6

[bigworld]

8. That's way high

Most are below 4. And keep in mind that the Richter scale is exponential... mean a 5.6 is ten times more powerful than a 4.6

[martin mike]

21. magnitude is secondary

the fact that human activity now causes earthquakes is the story here.

[workinclasszero]

9. "fracking-related quakes"

That's exactly what I was thinking too...fracking.

[workinclasszero]

10. Earthquake Shakes Swath of Midwest From Nebraska to Texas

Earthquake Shakes Swath of Midwest From Nebraska to Texas
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — Sep 3, 2016, 8:38 AM ET

An earthquake has rattled a swath of the Great Plains from Nebraska to North Texas.

The United States Geological Survey said that a 5.6 magnitude earthquake happened at 7:02 a.m. Saturday in north-central Oklahoma. It also tweeted that aftershocks may occur.

People in Kansas City, Missouri; Fayetteville, Arkansas; Des Moines, Iowa; and Norman, Oklahoma, all reported feeling the earthquake. Dallas TV station WFAA tweeted that the quake shook their studios, too.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/earthquake-shakes-swath-midwest-missouri-oklahoma-41842405

[Duckhunter935]

11. Taco trucks on the move

[workinclasszero]

14. Oh my...

[Loki]

13. Our son who lives down near KCMO

felt it, said it shook his house! We live further outside the city and didn't feel it. If these quakes in OK keep going off, it's going to kick at the New Madrid and when that one goes, whoa baby.

[workinclasszero]

15. Fracking

We are playing with fire.....

[Tess49]

16. I live just south of Oklahoma City. Really rattled my house, and scared the hell out

of the cat.

[Eagle_Eye]

17. Fracking caused earthquake shakes Oklahoma, again.

There, fixed the title.

[rgbecker]

18. Time for people to get together and sue the Frackers.

Probably enough damage to sheetrock joints etc across the area to add up to some serious money. Where are the class action lawyers when you need them?

[bigworld]

19. Another big aftershock just a few minutes ago

[workinclasszero]

20. Map of the testimonies received so far following the #earthquake M5.6 in Oklahoma 40 min ago

https://twitter.com/LastQuake/status/772052295370608640/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[Lulu KC]

22. Fracking

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-sej-oklahoma-quakes-fracking-20160302-story.html

[Ford_Prefect]

23. Quick! Someone get Ken Salazar on to explain how safe fracking is for all of us.

[bucolic_frolic]

24. Is Oklahoma Sinking?

Fracked into honeycomb

Seismic implosions make the coasts more vulnerable??

Scientists are computer-modeling for sure

OMG!!!! SCIENTISTS!!!! FrankenFractures!

[Mrs. Ted Nancy]

25. I live in OKC

The house shook for less than 15 seconds. No pictures fell from the wall (unlike the earthquake in 2011). Located the epicenter on Google Maps and there are no fracking wells near there, but there are several disposal wells in that area.

The oil companies were to decrease the volume of "fracking crap" that they inject back into the ground. However, I don't think that is being monitored. The oil companies are sort of on an honor system with this.

We've had over a hundred quakes the past week, but most have been under 2.5 magnitude.

[Major Nikon]

26. We felt it here in North Texas

[workinclasszero]

27. They are reporting 3 earthquakes now!

On local Kansas City TV station

[catbyte]

28. Here a frack, there a frack, everywhere a frack frack frack...

[workinclasszero]

30. Earthquakes for us..

...billions for the oil companies.

Capitalism, gotta love it!?

Is that the way its supposed to work?

[Maddchick]

29. Our side needs to take a firm stand against fracking right now. Flip-flop if you must but take the

right stand.

[Arazi]

41. +1000

[Odin2005]

31. Fracking?

[mnhtnbb]

32. I know people in St. Joseph, MO (where we used to live) felt it this morning.

[PSPS]

33. Where is Bartcop buried?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

34. Given how strong and widespread that quake was, plus the aftershocks.

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that fracking is probably not the cause of this particular one. Although I'm sure how easy it will be for the geologists to figure this out.

[Wednesdays]

36. We've had literally thousands of quakes in the last 5 years

Including hundreds of tremors in the area of today's quake. Before that, only a handful per year.

Please.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

38. I know. But how many of them were felt hundreds of miles away?

And the vast majority of those thousands of earthquakes were below the threshold of being felt. Yes, I know fracking is most probably the cause for all those, but this one seems fundamentally different.

I'm reminded of those who tried to blame the Boxing Day Earthquake on some sort of weapons testing by the Russians or the U.S., which showed a complete lack of understanding about the enormousness of the forces at work in an earthquake of that magnitude.

Today's earthquake, at 5.6, is significantly stronger than those we're pretty sure are the result of fracking.

Again, I'm not claiming to be an expert, but an awful lot of other non experts are immediately assuming fracking is the cause of this one.

[OkSustainAg]

35. Im in NE OK

It shook all the items on my shelves. Goats outside needed reassurance.

[Joey Liberal]

37. It was felt in SW Oklahoma too.

Fracking is the cause.

[libdem4life]

39. Yep...SW Oklahoma County...woke me up and reminded me of the years spent in CA.

Lived through the Loma Prieto and wondering ??????

[LongTomH]

40. We felt it up here in KC. No damage - that I've heard of.

I felt the room shaking; several of my friends also felt it.

[Arazi]

42. Fuck fracking