Volume 8 , Issue 14

The Southern Oklahoma Hiccup - 4/5/2006...

Hey! Are you Southern Oklahomans Shaken up yet?

On Wednesday, April 5, 2006, while we were getting winds, rain in the valley and snow in the mountains of SW Colorado, southern Oklahoma was experiencing a "hiccup" of an earthquake in their neck of the woods. Some say the earthquake measured 2.7 and another site at it marked as 3.0 on the rector scale. All this in the Southern part of Oklahoma on Wednesday, 4/5/2006, approximately, 1:46 CDT 4/5/2006. Did anyone else in the area get shaken? OR... was it just local to SE Lone Grove, Ardmore, etc...?

I suppose some of you Californians out there would say, "You call that an earthquake?"

Check out these graphs at www.okgeosurvey1.gov. Here is another link to check the magnitude of the Oklahoma earthquake Earthquake USGS Site. This is what they reported: Magnitude 3.0 - OKLAHOMA, 2006 April 5 18:46:23 UTC. Here is a page with the seismograms. You can see the images themselves at the following URLs: 20060406m.png -- 20060406h.png. The Oklahoma Geological Survey Observatory where the recordings are done is in Northeast Oklahoma between Tulsa & Muskogee. See this page for a map of its location: Visitors Information. There are also links on the OGS and USGS sites to report if you felt the quake. Links are: Oklahoma Geological Survey report -- U.S. Geological Survey report for the April 06, 2006 quake

It did quiet down here in the valley of SW Colorado on Friday, 4/7/2006, for the end of the week with a calm, cool sun shining over the valley. The Pugs laid out in the sun and chased birds most of the day. They can't seem to get their wings flapping enough to lift off the ground, though. Too Dang top-heavy! In the evenings the Pugs go on "deer alert" with the deer coming down into our front yard to graze in the evenings. The morning find these energetic Pugs on "Robin alert" when the robins perch in our grassy yard for their morning meal. Neither times of alert do the Pugs get to go outside, though. They have their own little, cushioned stool in front of the window, though. Those Pugs (Duchess & Sadie) crack me up!

This NW Okie has been re-reading, writing, re-writing an article to come out in the "Prairie Connection" in the future. That is another thing that has been keeping me off the streets & busy. Forgot to tell you what the article was about, didn't I! It concerns the "Old Opera House Mystery - November 9, 1910" when Alva, Oklahoma was only a brand NEW state of three years (statehood: 9/16/1907). Subscribe to the Prairie Connection" and check it out.
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