Earthquake just woke up Kansas City

The underground excavations and bunkers in Oklahoma must be really ramping up.

yep, or an aftershock that went all the way to Austin according to the clock stamp on each one....

that's funny it went with two others....in Wyoming and Nevada...but the Wyoming one disappeared...7:05.27......Nevada was 7:05.57

a reply to: texasgirl

I'm located 45 minutes east of KC and it woke me up. My bed was shaking and I thought my house was possessed. Never crossed my mind that it could be an earthquake until I jumped on Facebook.

originally posted by: Thenail
According to cnns website

"recent report released by the USGS showed that people in parts of Texas and Oklahoma now face similar ground-shaking risks from human-induced activity, such as fluid injection or extraction, is creating a similar risk that people face from natural earthquakes in California.
The agency outlined the risk of these so-called "induced" earthquakes, noting that Oklahoma City and the surrounding region face a 5 to 12% chance of damage from an earthquake in 2016.
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission, a regulatory agency that examines the state's fuel, oil, gas, public utilities and transportation industries, is "reviewing disposal wells in the vicinity of the earthquake near Pawnee," Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin said via Twitter."


I think this is real bad, let's not start creating earthquakes in the world just to let oil corporations make more money


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Exactly, alarming and sickening the same.

originally posted by: olaru12

originally posted by: SentientCentenarian


It's fascinating that animals can hear or otherwise sense something like that and we're oblivious.

Not all of us are oblivious. My lady here in the land of Enchantment jumped out of bed this 1:00 AM and said "there's a disturbance in the Force" She is very sensitive and does extremely well at the BlackJack tables.

She felt it in New Mexico?

Wow!

Apparently some folks felt it here in IA. I was just waking up at the time it would have occurred but did not feel anything unusual. Have to admit that would have been quite shocking. No pun intended.

a reply to: BuzzyWigs

People felt it up in Austin, north of us. We didn't feel it, but the dogs were acting like a couple of lunatics around 7am this morning. Pacing back and forth, whining, panting...they kept waking me up. Not normal for them at all unless there's a bad storm coming, and we've got zero weather going on right now. So they felt it even though I couldn't.

originally posted by: SomeDumbBroad
I'm located 45 minutes east of KC and it woke me up. My bed was shaking and I thought my house was possessed. Never crossed my mind that it could be an earthquake until I jumped on Facebook.

We must live very, very close to each other because I live 45 minutes east of KC.

Anyway, I was at work when it happened. I didn't "feel" it, per say, but I noticed everything in the building that was hanging started moving all the sudden. Many of my friends had similar experiences to yours, felt their bed shaking.

originally posted by: OkieDokie
We are up in Northern OK by Ponca City. It threw us around pretty good too. Preliminary reports are a 5.8 but I haven't seen an epicenter reported yet. Pics fell off our walls and stuff was breaking from falling off shelves. It woke us all up here too. Our poor kids were terrified. That's the biggest one we have felt here.

~OkieDokie

cool! Nice to see a fellow oklahoman here on ATS. I was born and raised in edmond/guthrie

originally posted by: Greven
This one seemed pretty strong north of Edmond, OK. I was a bit afraid.

Woke me up, but it felt worse than the M4.2 near my house two years ago.

youre familiar with edmond?

All kidding aside, I did have a weird sensation when the tremor came through my area. For about 4 seconds I felt incredibly claustrophobic. It was akin to the EMF effect I have heard about on Ghosthunters when a person is in a dark room or corridor with a lot of active electrical conduits.

originally posted by: speedhead93

originally posted by: Greven
This one seemed pretty strong north of Edmond, OK. I was a bit afraid.

Woke me up, but it felt worse than the M4.2 near my house two years ago.

youre familiar with edmond?

Yep. Lived north of there for most of my life now, more than 26 years.

a reply to: madenusa

A warning tremor. Labor pains. I get it.
(Gave birth to two kids!)

a reply to: BuzzyWigs
When does the water break?

a reply to: SomeDumbBroad

My bed was shaking and I thought my house was possessed.

I know exactly what you mean. I felt it, thought it was the dog....but no. Dog wasn't in the room. Thought it was my dad, maybe....a signal.

I had an experience about 20 years ago where a similar thing happened, with footsteps and then nudging on the couch where I was sleeping........my husband's deceased grandpa...............

but, yeah "earthquake" was not even a guess. I thought dog or daddy.....
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a reply to: Phage

I don't know.


I know about the New Madrid fault. I took several years of schooling in ecological studies. We all know New Madrid will at some random time be stressed enough to level our pitiable structures and bury us all alive.

But Fracking IS NOT HELPING.....

Did Drilling Cause Oklahoma Quake?

a reply to: BuzzyWigs
Injection wells are not exclusively the provenance of fracking. But is there evidence that earthquakes of this intensity can be attributed to injection?

I wonder if it may actually be beneficial. Allowing movement to happen before stresses reach dangerous levels.

a reply to: Phage

Click on the link I provided. I'm learning about it, too.

When an earthquake struck Oklahoma on Saturday, one of the first steps state officials took was to shut down 37 of the state's 3,200 active disposal wells -- a move that drew national attention to the link between oil and gas drilling and earthquakes.
No one was seriously injured in the Oklahoma quake, and investigations and cleanup has begun. Here's what you need to know.

They are studying and teaming up to find a solution to stop the quakes but not the drilling.

You know as much as I do, apparently. I just got here. Interesting class.

a reply to: Phage

Yeah, I think it really is something that needs to happen like a valve on a pressure cooker.

But I just am really negative and bitter about the 'treatment' of the surface of our only home - our planet - we don't actually have any other home. Shouldn't we all contribute to keeping our home functional, safe, and healthy?

a reply to: BuzzyWigs
Yup.
However there does not seem to be a strong consensus on what that would entail.

There is a strong contingent which thinks using fossil fuels, the cheaper the better, is a good idea.