Record Earthquake Hits Oklahoma

getreadyalready also stated that there are no faults in Oklahoma, this is also not true. I found an article from Science News, June 8 1985 Stefi Weisburd "Until recently, no one saw the telltale signs of relatively new movement, perhaps within the last few thousand years, making the Meers fault essentially the only young, surface-breaking rupture east of the Rocky Mountains. Geologists now know that not only is the fault young, but it could produce a magnitude 7 earthquake in the future."
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reply to post by sumogeek


Yep. I had no idea that one was there. Apparently no one else did until recently either?

This sounds similar to the other "new" fault discovered in Arkansas in addition to the New Madrid fault.

Are there more "ancient" faults along this east-west line? Maybe a large faultline from ancient history is reawakening over the last 20 years?

Interesting

Its been upgraded to a 5.1 by the USGS www.usgs.gov...

Here's a video i found. shows some pretty good shaking

Oklahoma has earthquakes all the time.

They had some small ones earlier this year that was felt, usually nobody even knows there was one. The center of this one was around lake thunderbird. My mom and dad live 2 miles from it. My mom was home and thought a cow ran into the house.

No I'm not joking.

reply to post by ButterCookie


Thanks for the updated info! I guess it was worse than they thought.

This is close to the 5.5 biggest earthquake in OK so far.

Originally posted by Jibblin


Did anyone else feel it that lives in the area?

newsok.com
(visit the link for the full news article)

I don't live anywhere near the area and I didn't feel it.

I had people telling me that they felt it here in Denton, TX this morning.
We're about 150 miles apart.