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Title: Earthquake!
Post by: stymied on October 13, 2010, 09:11:30 AM
did anyone feel that?  Happened about 9:08 am.  I have already spoken to people from Stillwater to Broken Arrow that all felt that.
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Post by: swake on October 13, 2010, 09:12:38 AM
Yes, I did, and my wife called me said the same thing
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Post by: bokworker on October 13, 2010, 09:12:54 AM
I didn't but my daughter just called me from OKC and said it was strong there. Shook her building at 6th and Classen and rattled fixtures in the office.
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Post by: Nik on October 13, 2010, 09:18:00 AM
We all felt it downtown. I saw on twitter others felt it in OKC. That's a pretty wide radius for an Oklahoma earthquake. Was it two simultaneous ones or maybe a strong one epicentered between OKC & Tulsa? Haven't seen anything on the USGS website yet. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/
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Post by: brunoflipper on October 13, 2010, 09:18:40 AM
yep it was....
made a picture move on our dining room wall...
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Post by: Mike 01Hawk on October 13, 2010, 09:21:14 AM
Dangit, I was preoccupied with a conf call and trying to wake up with coffee so I missed it here in Owasso <ripped!>
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Post by: Nik on October 13, 2010, 09:21:47 AM
Epicenter appears to have been 6 miles east of Norman. 4.5 Magnitude, pretty strong for Oklahoma.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/us2010ciay.php
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Post by: bokworker on October 13, 2010, 09:22:37 AM
I did not feel it at my office near 61st and Lewis..
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Post by: swake on October 13, 2010, 09:28:02 AM
Quote from: bokworker on October 13, 2010, 09:22:37 AM
I did not feel it at my office near 61st and Lewis..

I certainly felt it at 71st and Lewis, but I'm on the second floor.
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Post by: Hoss on October 13, 2010, 09:31:04 AM
Quote from: swake on October 13, 2010, 09:28:02 AM
I certainly felt it at 71st and Lewis, but I'm on the second floor.

2nd floor of the old Oxy Center (at 46th/129th E) and definitely felt it.  Like someone jumping up and down right next to me.
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Post by: Ibanez on October 13, 2010, 09:33:18 AM
Shook our building downtown pretty good. My monitors were dancing across my desk and I was beginning to wonder if I was have a bad flashback.

Then it stopped.
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Post by: dbacks fan on October 13, 2010, 09:41:20 AM
According to GE, here is the epicenter just off of Thunderbird Lake.


(http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p309/kallsop2/epicenter.jpg)
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Post by: sgrizzle on October 13, 2010, 10:04:05 AM
Felt it on the 3rd floor at 7th & Detroit.
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Post by: guido911 on October 13, 2010, 10:19:14 AM
Felt nothing in S. Tulsa/Bixby
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Post by: Gaspar on October 13, 2010, 10:33:37 AM
I'm digging out of the rubble. . . a marker fell over on my mouse as I was typing. . .I'll be ok.
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Post by: Dana431 on October 13, 2010, 10:38:46 AM
I felt my desk shake out here in Claremore...
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Post by: patric on October 13, 2010, 10:42:01 AM
I actually thought it was a raccoon trying to get through some screening I had placed over a gable vent.
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Post by: Red Arrow on October 13, 2010, 10:43:48 AM
Felt it here at Riverside/Jones Airport.  2nd story.
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Post by: bmuscotty on October 13, 2010, 10:50:47 AM
I live near 71st & Lewis. Couch started shaking and heard stuff rattling in the kitchen. I thought I had moved back to California. 
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Post by: nathanm on October 13, 2010, 11:21:59 AM
Yep, 3 or 4 long wavelength shakes at 15th/Harvard. It felt like someone had jumped to the floor from a few feet up. It was pretty weak, despite my house being on fill. It didn't wake my house guest, anyway.
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Post by: SXSW on October 13, 2010, 11:29:47 AM
It shook my office near 71st & Yale.  Felt like a large object had been dropped.  Damage and injuries reported in Norman.
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Post by: Conan71 on October 13, 2010, 11:34:16 AM
I was in Bricktown, OKC at the time. I heard a train horn about that time and thought it was from the train but the ceiling lights were swaying as well. I got a text from FMC a few minutes later, she thought a Mack truck had hit her office building near 12th & Robinson in Norman.
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Post by: patric on October 13, 2010, 11:53:25 AM
Earthquake rating upgraded to magnitude 5.1
An earthquake that struck central Oklahoma today was the second-strongest in the state's history, the Oklahoma Geological Survey reported. No significant damage or serious injuries have been reported with the quake, which was felt in three states.
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Post by: custosnox on October 13, 2010, 12:34:56 PM
It woke me up out here in North Tulsa country.  I think the guy that I'm staying with slept through it.
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Post by: TheArtist on October 13, 2010, 01:24:09 PM
  It was odd.  I had a couple doors and windows open and at the same time the house started shaking the wind had picked up.  Would have thought it was a tornado had the sun not been out lol. Then got a bit mad for I thought..."alright one of those big ol construction trucks must have just gone down the street again" and jumped up to take a look.  They are working on that highway bridge over Darlington near my house and they are always banging away, trucks going by, etc. Then later thought, hmmm perhaps it was another earthquake.  Second one I have felt this year. This one shook the house a lot more than the last one.
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Post by: dbacks fan on October 13, 2010, 02:23:40 PM
Don't know if any of you have seen this but a Youtube blogger was recording his college footbal picks and caught it.



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Post by: patric on October 13, 2010, 03:05:57 PM
Quote from: dbacks fan on October 13, 2010, 02:23:40 PM


Something else should be moving, the boxes on the fridge, the leaves on the plant, etc.  and the camera was shaking before the quake, so im having trouble believing this was actually taped during the earthquake.
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Post by: DTowner on October 13, 2010, 03:25:11 PM
I'm so disappointed - I work downtown and did not feel a thing.
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Post by: Ed W on October 13, 2010, 05:27:26 PM
My wife said the Earth moved....and it didn't do much for my ego, lemme tell ya.
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Post by: Breadburner on October 14, 2010, 07:21:02 AM
Sorry folks....That was me and my new Zimbabwe bride......
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Post by: Hoss on October 14, 2010, 11:29:02 AM
Usually such photos are associated with tornadoes here in Oklahoma.

Thought you guys would like to see some of the devastation from the earthquake this morning. Apparently this was taken just over the epicenter...

(http://www.tulsatrafficcirclewx.com/images/quakedmg.jpg)
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Post by: Conan71 on October 14, 2010, 11:48:14 AM
I caught that one from the "I survived the 2010 quake" FB page.  Awesome humor!