Earthquakes in oklahoma!
 

Mercy! We had a earthquake here about 11 or so last nite and it felt like it was moving our whole house!
The news says it was a 5.6. And we were having aftershocks that were 3.+ for a while afterwards.
Use to be you never heard of a earthquake here and it seemed very unlikely that you would. But lately we have been having some small ones. Tonites was the first really scary one.I almost dread going outside tomorrow, cause I don't know how it would have not done any damage to the house. Funny how these things seem to happen in the nite when you can't go outside and see anything. hmmmmm.
But, this is the second nite in a row that we had one. And the nites before wasn't no small quake either. It shook our house pretty good. They have pics on the news of buckled roads here.
Times, they are a changin.
Tammy

We felt it in Blanchard too. Lasted for over 6 seconds - I had a small case of vertigo afterwards. Our ceiling fan in living room on an extension pole was really swinging!!

I experienced several while living in California - scary to say the least - just remember not to run outside at least at night- live light wires could have fallen. Also go to an inside hall - do NOT stand in doorways! These were all things I learned while living out in CA - just try to be safe - but I know how scary these can be - and your heart pounds till it is over and if the aftershock is strong - you feel like "here we go again" - not a great feeling.

We had our home built in 2009, since then we have experienced the record breaking tornado, snow storm, ice storm, high heat, fires, flooding in okc and now the earthquake. Omg, what's next?

Stay safe! Is it me, or do there seem to be more earthquakes around in different places from usual?

there are 2 threads started on this last night...here in ENID it is all the buzz around town...apparently there has never been felt here quite like the one last night..it really shoook for a while!

hugs for you and family -- very scary!

How scary. I'm glad you are OK.

I felt a jolt and a photo I have on a spring balanced frame began to swing back and forth. I told my son I felt an earthquake jolt and he just laughed until this morning he read the news and checked the time. I live in SE New Mexico quite a distance from OK so it must have been a deep earthquake. I am a retired teacher and have a degree in Geology Sciences so knew it had to be an earthquake somewhere, was surprised it was from such a distance. If I had not been quietly reading I probably would not have noticed it. My granddaughter goes to school at OU so am waiting to here what she has to say.

Lol....I know what you mean. One thing is for sure in Oklahoma you get a taste of it all!
Tammy

They say this one was 3 miles under the ground. But it was a shake!

Being old enough to have weathered multiple quakes, including being right on the epicenter of the Northridge, CA earthquake, there are a couple of things we always and/or never do: always keep your glasses in your bedside table at night, not on top of it - always keep some sort of shoes or slippers by the bed (broken glass is one of the biggest causes of injury in quakes) - get under a substantial table if possible - do not run outside, especially at night, it is just too hard to see electrical wires, trees, falling chimneys.

we were always told to go to doorways, but think about all the pix you have ever seen on the news....there's always a bldg with an entire side gone and all the bathrooms stacked on top of one another and complete....small room spans, lots of pipes to reinforce everything....we all head for the bathrooms... san diego resident for 40 + years...

Tammy-I live in Maryland and just a couple of months ago we had one. Our house was shaking like a washer off balance! I took out
Earthquake insurance. Some friends and family think that I'm silly, but if we are ever hit with another one that did major damage no
Way could we take on a new mortgage. I had to wait one week after the last tremor before I could take out the insurance. I may never need it, but it gives me piece of mind.