Volume 12 , Issue 42

Ramblings & Rumblings With NW Okie

Where are the rumblings come from in Oklahoma? How come in the past couple of years earthquakes have become the norm in Oklahoma? October 13, 2010, 9:06 a.m., in central Oklahoma another earthquake reached the updated 5.1 magnitude. Did anyone out there from Wichita, Kansas to to Dallas, Texas feel this 5.1 earthquake? What are your earthquake stories?

According to the Preliminary Earthquake Report put out by the Leonard Geophysical Observatory in Leonard, Oklahoma, concerning the Oklahoma earthquake at 9:06 AM CDT (14:06:30 UTC), located 5 miles ENE of Noble, OK and 8 miles SE of Norman, OK (around Lake Thunderbird) at latitude 35.164 N and longitude 97.316 W., measuring at 4.5 and updated to 5.1, states, "There have been pictures floating around in various emails with large ground fissures reportedly from this earthquake. We have received NO reports of ground fissures. If we are provided with locations of ground fissures within the area of the earthquake we will gladly examine these ground fissures. Ground deformation on the scale of these pictures would be completely unprecedented for an earthquake of this magnitude."

They reported that the best estimate of the earthquakes depth was 13 km (8 miles). Felt reports have ranged from Dallas, Texas to Wichita, Kansas and as far east as Arkansas. There had been two small aftershocks as of the morning of October 14. Aftershocks were likely to continue and some may have been felt by local residents. They were also reporting that this earthquake did not occur on a known fault, but they report that there are more faults in the rocks in the subsurface of Oklahoma than they could possibly count.

This is a report of the earthquakes that rattled parts of Oklahoma and Arkansas as seen on 4029tv:



We leave with this quote we found by our first U.S. President, George Washington, "As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality."

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