Earthquake in Oklahoma
#1
Earthquake in Oklahoma
How many felt it? I was reading in bed and it started shaking! Told the husband "We are having an earthquake." We got up, he grabbed the police scanner, I got on the computer and went to USGS, turned on the tv. Then answered the phone..youngest daughter all excited. Time to go back to bed and finished that chapter. Sylvia was reading the journal. LOL
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Craftygran
How many felt it? I was reading in bed and it started shaking! Told the husband "We are having an earthquake." We got up, he grabbed the police scanner, I got on the computer and went to USGS, turned on the tv. Then answered the phone..youngest daughter all excited. Time to go back to bed and finished that chapter. Sylvia was reading the journal. LOL
#5
My thoughts are with you. Having been through quite a few major e-quakes in my time they can be unnerving. The note above from Mamatron is good advice for all of us - emergency and earthquake supplies at the ready
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I am in the Texas panhandle area, we had an earthquake a few years back, it sure was a strange feeling...at 1st I thought I had put in a load of wash and maybe my machine was way off kilter (big lol, especially as that wouldn't happen anyway). I think it registered around 3 on the richter scale, which I know is small, but considering where I am, it was odd to us! Now if it is a tornado or a prairie grass fire, those we are used to watching out for, and praying they don't come along...
Take care all,
Kif
Take care all,
Kif
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I was on the disaster planning board a few years ago. We met for weeks and it was only by my stubborn insistence that earthquakes were even included on the list of possible events. This was north of Atlanta and these men couldn't even imagine we could have an earthquake. Big fault runs under Atlanta. I wonder if the quake in Washington, D.C. made an impression on those 'planners'.
#10
Having grown up in CA. I am very used to earthquakes. They are very unsettling : ) and pretty scary for anyone that has not experienced one. We live in AZ now and I honestly thought my earthquakes days were over, but ... then a few years ago, I was sitting in my chair and it began to move, and it was an earthquake. The only thing was it was an earthquake in CA, that we felt all the way over here!
I guess the thing that really amazes me, is we can predict the tornados, hurricanes, etc, but there is really no way to predict an earthquake. Really no way to prepare for it, it just happens out of the blue.
I hope everyone is ok, and there was not alot of damage in OK due to this. Sometimes they can be very destructive as well.
I guess the thing that really amazes me, is we can predict the tornados, hurricanes, etc, but there is really no way to predict an earthquake. Really no way to prepare for it, it just happens out of the blue.
I hope everyone is ok, and there was not alot of damage in OK due to this. Sometimes they can be very destructive as well.
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