Oklahoma Earthquake Breaks Record
source: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/11/oklahoma-quake-buckles-highway-damages-sev...
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I was just woken up out of bed by an earthquake shaking things in my room a little while ago just south of Tulsa. -EmperorThan 3AM Nov 5, 2011
Update: A much stronger earthquake, the strongest in Oklahoma history, struck while I was at my cousin's apartment things in her kitchen were falling and breaking it lasted for about 45 second to a minute. Very long duration and it kept getting stronger as it progressed. Have never seen anything like that before. -EmperorThan 11PM Nov 5, 2011
"A 5.6-magnitude earthquake outside of Oklahoma City just before 11 p.m. Saturday was felt in Chicago and the suburbs, and as far away as Milwaukee and Madison.
"This is our largest event in Oklahoma ever," said Jessica Sigala Turner, a geophysicist with the United States Geological Survey. "The previous largest was a 5.5-magnitude earthquake in 1952."
.... the earthquake has buckled a major highway in three places, at least three homes sustained major damage and others had roof and chimney damage, officials said.
U.S. Highway 62, which crosses Lincoln County, buckled west of Prague, Okla., according to Aaron Bennett, a dispatcher with Lincoln County 911 and emergency management.
"There's a boulder the size of an SUV in a rural road," Bennett said, noting the quake had left many coping with "a lot of broken glass and ceiling tiles."
"We're still experiencing aftershocks," he said, adding that emergency managers planned to wait until morning's light to make a more thorough assessment of the damage."
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/11/oklahoma-quake-buckles-highway...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-usgs-largest-oklahoma-quak...
http://newsok.com/earthquake-felt-in-oklahoma-city-metro-area/article/3620538?
http://www.topnews.in/usa/files/OK.jpeg
Update: A much stronger earthquake, the strongest in Oklahoma history, struck while I was at my cousin's apartment things in her kitchen were falling and breaking it lasted for about 45 second to a minute. Very long duration and it kept getting stronger as it progressed. Have never seen anything like that before. -EmperorThan 11PM Nov 5, 2011
"A 5.6-magnitude earthquake outside of Oklahoma City just before 11 p.m. Saturday was felt in Chicago and the suburbs, and as far away as Milwaukee and Madison.
"This is our largest event in Oklahoma ever," said Jessica Sigala Turner, a geophysicist with the United States Geological Survey. "The previous largest was a 5.5-magnitude earthquake in 1952."
.... the earthquake has buckled a major highway in three places, at least three homes sustained major damage and others had roof and chimney damage, officials said.
U.S. Highway 62, which crosses Lincoln County, buckled west of Prague, Okla., according to Aaron Bennett, a dispatcher with Lincoln County 911 and emergency management.
"There's a boulder the size of an SUV in a rural road," Bennett said, noting the quake had left many coping with "a lot of broken glass and ceiling tiles."
"We're still experiencing aftershocks," he said, adding that emergency managers planned to wait until morning's light to make a more thorough assessment of the damage."
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/11/oklahoma-quake-buckles-highway...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-usgs-largest-oklahoma-quak...
http://newsok.com/earthquake-felt-in-oklahoma-city-metro-area/article/3620538?
http://www.topnews.in/usa/files/OK.jpeg
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