OMG we just had an earthquake. In KANSAS!!

[proud2BlibKansan]

I felt a shake and I thought my dog was scratching. Looked over and she was sound asleep. Took me a minute to realize what was going on.

DH was at the store sitting in his car and felt it move. He thought it was the wind then he realized there was no wind and the car next to him was shaking too.

A friend in south central KS - about 250 miles from me - just emailed to tell us his house shook HARD.

Shit. This is creepy.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. 4.7 per usgs.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/usb0006k8b.php

[OKNancy]

5. that was this morning's quake.

this is the one just about 30 min. ago http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usb0006klz.php

5.2

[Hassin Bin Sober]

6. They have it at 5.2 now on your link.

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Oh cool.

Magnitude 5.2 - OKLAHOMA
2011 November 06 03:53:10 UTC

Versión en Español
Details
Summary
Maps
Scientific & Technical
Earthquake Details

This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
Magnitude
5.2
Date-Time
Sunday, November 06, 2011 at 03:53:10 UTC
Saturday, November 05, 2011 at 10:53:10 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
35.599°N, 96.751°W
Depth
5 km (3.1 miles)
Region
OKLAHOMA
Distances
34 km (21 miles) NNE of Shawnee, Oklahoma
63 km (39 miles) SSE of Stillwater, Oklahoma
68 km (42 miles) ESE of Guthrie, Oklahoma
71 km (44 miles) ENE of OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma
Location Uncertainty
horizontal +/- 13.9 km (8.6 miles); depth +/- 3 km (1.9 miles)
Parameters
NST=298, Nph=298, Dmin=208.2 km, Rmss=1.54 sec, Gp= 22°,
M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=9
Source
Magnitude: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID
usb0006klz
Did you feel it? Report shaking and damage at your location. You can also view a map displaying accumulated data from your report and others.
Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center:
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver

4.7. Now 5.2

Stay frosty folks.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

19. If you look again, the box is bigger and red. The earlier box was blue.

Once again, DU, and it's sleuths, are faster than the USGS AND the media.

[nadinbrzezinski]

22. iPad, eyes are tired

I know excuses and all that.

:-)

[Hassin Bin Sober]

29. Oh it was blue and smaller when you posted. You are just too fast and have cat-like reflexes.

:)

[nadinbrzezinski]

31. Meaw...the birds will get annoyed

:-)

As long as nobody got hurt in this...

[Broken_Hero]

2. Felt it here as well, SW MO

Hey,:hi:

[rhiannon55]

3. Where are you in Kansas?

I'm in Baldwin City and I didn't feel anything.

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. NE Johnson County.

It wasn't very hard but I was creeped out when I realized what it was.

My friend in KCMO felt it too.

[SoCalDem]

64. anywhere near Olathe?

we used to live there..It was such a nice little place:)

[proud2BlibKansan]

70. About 15 miles north of there

[Mabus]

15. Nothing here in Larryville either

Love you Rhiannon55. We were talking about you and G the other day. We had a critter wandering the neighborhood and it brought back memories of G posting from the basement when you all lived a couple blocks away and his talk about the critters that would visit him.
Give the girls a hug from us.

[proud2BlibKansan]

20. Larryville has always been a special place.

Good Karma there. :)

[Mabus]

27. LOL. Mos' def

I guess the earthquakes are going to be like the weather and bypass my little heaven.

[Mabus]

32. Correction, CJ's husband is posting on FB that he felt something around 11

and others are chiming in that they felt it too.

Guess we're immune here in East Larryville. I'll let you know if we get any aftershocks.

[rhiannon55]

37. Love you back, Mabus

Hug Steve for me. I've been meaning to go to an Occupy Lawrence rally, but haven't made it yet.

[bayareamike]

4. Not that bad. But hey, I'd take earthquakes over

tornadoes any day.

[JDPriestly]

7. Check this out.

http://nwksgmd4.blogspot.com/2011/09/hydraulic-fracking-in-kansas-2.html

The earthquake in Virginia (I think it was in Eric Cantor's district?) a few months ago occurred in an area where there was fracking.

[NRaleighLiberal]

8. looks like a 5.2 - check this link

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Maps/US10/32.42.-100.-90_eqs.php

[elana i am]

9. i think i felt it here in KC

lasted only a few seconds, but wow!
i just read it was a shallow one in oklahoma. 5.2 mag.
first time i felt one!

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. I'm in Johnson County. We felt it here.

We're no longer earthquake virgins.

[elana i am]

28. yep. i'm in overland park.

at first i thought it was the downstairs neighbors IYKWIM!
wow! it wasn't much really, but still wow!

yeah, ch 9 has it as breaking news now...
http://www.kmbc.com/news/29694688/detail.html

[proud2BlibKansan]

42. I'm in northern OP

[rugger1869]

41. Felt here in Leavenworth County too. nt

[proud2BlibKansan]

44. Who knew it would take an earthquake for me to meet my Kansas neighbors on DU.

LOL

[rugger1869]

47. Well, I'm a transplant here.

I've been keeping my head down. Kansas is oddly conservative. Pleased to meet you, fellow progressives!

[proud2BlibKansan]

48. It's a great place to live but sucks politically.

And believe it or not, Kansas was a progressive hotspot about 100 years ago. Go figure.

Welcome! :hi:

[rugger1869]

49. I appreciate the welcome!

And yeah... I know what you mean. I wish that progressive spirit would return. I am originally from Arkansas, and once upon a time we were fairly progressive for a Southern state. Not any more. :(

[jobycom]

11. Yeah, I saw that game! 52 to 45? Wow!

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. LOL

[hedgehog]

23. Hey - whether you felt it or not - go to this site and put your data in -

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/

[Hassin Bin Sober]

14. When we had one a few years ago in chicago I felt like I was having a "spell"....

...whatever that is. Or equilibrium problems.

[hedgehog]

17. 5.2 in Oklahoma? That can't be right!

BTW - don't forget that it's not just the number that's important, but also duration, type of wave, soil type and especially the type of construction that determines the true impact.

[JanMichael]

18. The gods are pissed about the game

tonight.

Clearly. I would expect some more.

[proud2BlibKansan]

24. LOL my cousin is there and he just posted that on FB.

[bluestate10]

21. Are you sure a bunch of cows weren't breaking wind? nt

[proud2BlibKansan]

25. I'm in the middle of a big metro area

No cows for a couple hundred miles or so.

[MuseRider]

26. Nothing South of Topeka.

Wow. Interesting.

I can deal with tornados but I don't like the thought of an earthquake. They do feel really creepy.

[proud2BlibKansan]

40. It was creepier AFTERWARDS when I realized what it was.

Fracking, anyone??

[MuseRider]

53. I felt one once, long ago

in Honduras. Freaked me the fuck out and I still remember everything about that moment.

My oldest did not feel a thing, have not heard from my youngest.

Fracking? Everyone knows fracking does not cause the earth to shift and groan and occasionally do something like this! :sarcasm:

It is a good guess, I would certainly not bet against it.

Glad it was not worse here. I will be interested to hear tomorrow what, if anything, happened in Oklahoma. Maybe it shifted that creepy cross we saw there from the highway!

[izquierdista]

30. Maybe you're not in Kansas anymore.....

....did you check for fault line movement and witches under the house?

[proud2BlibKansan]

45. I wish. LOL

[patrice]

33. OMG! I felt that, but thought it was the wine!! nt

[Liberal_in_LA]

34. and meanwhile, no shaking in CA. this is weird.

[scorpiogirl]

36. Oh, we've had a bit in the Bay Area a couple of weeks ago. n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

43. oh yeah n/t

[bayareamike]

56. Ya there have been at least three noticeable ones all

centered in/around Berkeley in the past week and a half.

[Prism]

54. Berkeley had another one today

3.2, felt it at work.

The Hayward has been very, very, very active of late. Four or five 3.0+ in the past few weeks.

[itsrobert]

35. 5.6 Mw - OKLAHOMA

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usb0006klz.php#maps

[nadinbrzezinski]

38. Update 5.6

Magnitude 5.6 - OKLAHOMA
2011 November 06 03:53:10 UTC

Versión en Español
Details
Summary
Maps
Scientific & Technical
Earthquake Details

This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
Magnitude
5.6
Date-Time
Sunday, November 06, 2011 at 03:53:10 UTC
Saturday, November 05, 2011 at 10:53:10 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
35.599°N, 96.752°W
Depth
5 km (3.1 miles)
Region
OKLAHOMA
Distances
34 km (21 miles) NNE of Shawnee, Oklahoma
63 km (39 miles) SSE of Stillwater, Oklahoma
68 km (42 miles) ESE of Guthrie, Oklahoma
71 km (44 miles) ENE of OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma
Location Uncertainty
horizontal +/- 13.9 km (8.6 miles); depth +/- 3 km (1.9 miles)
Parameters
NST=298, Nph=298, Dmin=208.2 km, Rmss=1.54 sec, Gp= 22°,
M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=9
Source
Magnitude: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Location: USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID
usb0006klz
Did you feel it? Report shaking and damage at your location. You can also view a map displaying accumulated data from your report and others.

Oh and preemptively to my fellow west coasters...no jokes.

[YvonneCa]

39. Glad you're okay. Weird that all these...

...quakes are happening in Kansas and Oklahoma. Really weird. :hi:

[proud2BlibKansan]

46. Fracking?

There's more natural gas than oil underground here in Kansas.

[YvonneCa]

69. That is THE question. And...if there is any...

...possible link to earthquakes, that is dangerous. For the planet. :hi:

[Speck Tater]

50. Are you sure you're still in Kansas? Any flying monkeys or munchkins hanging around? nt

[proud2BlibKansan]

51. Lots of munchkins but no monkey sightings.

[Firebrand Gary]

52. I bet its Fracking.

[nadinbrzezinski]

55. First reports of damage

http://www.kjrh.com/dpp/news/local_news/strong-5.2-earthquake-rattles-oklahoma

[CoffeeCat]

57. That is crazy!

Earthquakes that are felt in Kansas? That's very bizarre.

This song goes out to you P2B!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoHuxpa4h48

[proud2BlibKansan]

60. LOL

[Blue_In_AK]

58. Is the New Madrid fault around there?

[nadinbrzezinski]

59. Not quite

First thing that I asked too

[proud2BlibKansan]

61. 300 miles away

maybe 400

[Kablooie]

62. I hope Kansas doesn't break off and fall into the ocean.

Though if it did it would sure make for an interesting scientific study.

[cbdo2007]

66. I'm in Missouri....so I wouldn't mind. We're way too far from the beach right now.

[Downwinder]

63. Keystone going to transit an earthquake zone?

[YellowRubberDuckie]

65. Apparently last night's was in Sparks OK (near Shawnee), and it was a 5.6.

We felt it. My husband was so excited. LOL

[AsahinaKimi]

67. I am sure someone here may have told you to be aware there maybe aftershocks

There will always be some, but they seem to always be smaller then the larger event. At least in most cases. Here in the bay area, we have many of them every day but most are micro quakes. Occassionally a good sized roller will happen, but not as often as people think.

[Shrek]

68. I felt it here in Wichita

No damage but it was unmistakeable.

[man4allcats]

71. I got calls from family and friends in

northwestern Arkansas and Wichita Falls, TX who also felt it. Both said there was enough vibration to knock pictures off the walls. Scary and widespread!