my first earthquake

[highwater]

Just finished watching the Oklahoma State/Kansas game, making a cup of coffee, and the wifes chair starts moving.
My knees are still moving.
USGS says 5.2.
Been a lot of shaking in Oklahoma lately.
Now where did I put that tornado?
Randall

[highwater]

Upgraded to 5.6
Had 4.7 yesterday, but didn't feel that one.
All centered in central OK.
Said 5.6 could be felt as far as Kansas City.
Randall

[Carlb]

We had a 5.9 in New Jersey this summer.   First quake of any size in over 100 years i think.

[rcavictim]

Hmmmm, would that make you fellas quakers?   

[Carlb]

LOL,


My wife is a teacher at a "Friends School" which is run by Quakers.

[cschuerm]

Got a pretty good shaking here west of Tulsa...twice this weekend.  Really rattled the windows and left a nice crack across my garage floor :-(
Definitely NOT used to this and hoping we don't get any more. 

Chris

[LowGear]

We in Kona and Seattle are only grinning. 

5.6!!!  Ooooooow.  Ooooooooh.  Ooooooow.  Honey is the coffee done yet?  Isn't the Richter magnitude scale based on log logarithm assignments?

Can you imagine what those quakes in Japan were like?  I cannot.

Casey

[highwater]

Please donate, the relief agencies are running out of barbed wire

My daughter sent this to me found it on facebook....

Randall

[rcavictim]

LOL,


My wife is a teacher at a "Friends School" which is run by Quakers.

Only business I've ever knowingly had with Quakers is that I've bought and eaten their oatmeal. 

[LowGear]

Aloha highwater,

We greatly admire your spirit.  I'm having a cashiers check made on my Cayman Islands bank.  I'm only allowed to make them out for $1,000.  Please remit $500 in large unmarked bills to any Western Union Agency with "Attention: Clarkson McDuck" attached.

Casey

[admin]

didn't feel the first quake this weekend, but darn sure felt the 5.6 last night

it was one of those roller types, and lasted a bit over 30 seconds or so...

having lived through a few out in tacoma, the last place i figured to feel another was
here in central kansas!

sort of unnerving when no one around here has ever felt a quake in their lifetimes,  and based on
that knowledge you are left to wondering just how bad will it get?

i personally figure that if i am to live through earthquakes, i want momma earth to release the energy periodically
in low dosages,  and not once ever 200 years with a really big one like the one centered in Missouri back in the early 1800's

all in all pretty nostalgic

bob g

[d34]

What scares me is that I live in the county that had the big quake years ago, New Madrid, MO.  And these quakes are happening all over.  One of these days it will happen here. 

[vdubnut62]

Well d34, somebody else thinks that too.  A couple months ago Tenn. Farmers Mutual cancelled my earthquake coverage that I had been
carrying for 20 some odd years @ around 10 bucks bi-annually. I couldn't afford the company they referred me to, their coverage was
as much as my whole homeowners policy. Don't want to sound like a conspiracy nut, but it got me to thinking anyway.
I'm prob'ly what, 400 miles from you?
Ron.

[d34]

Probably real close to that. They started canceling my earthquake insurance 2 years ago.  I only have one house that still has it and I'm sure that will change soon.

[Apogee]

Get used to it.

Fracking is the new normal which means earthquakes in your part of the country are also going to be the new normal.

Of course, it's all perfectly safe... 

Just don't drink any well water.