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A 5.1 magnitude earthquake shook an area near Oklahoma City late Friday, followed by smaller quakes during the next several hours, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. No injuries were reported ...
A 5.1 magnitude earthquake shook central Oklahoma late Friday night and was felt over a 200-mile radius from Kansas to Texas and Arkansas, a scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Several earthquakes, the largest a magnitude 4.5, shook the Oklahoma City metro late Friday and early Saturday morning. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the following earthquakes were ...
The following is a list of historical earthquakes with epicenters located within the boundaries of Oklahoma. Only earthquakes of greater than or equal to magnitude 4.5 are included. Information pertaining to time, magnitude, epicenter, and depth is retrieved from the United States Geological Survey or, when USGS information is unavailable, the ...
The Oklahoma earthquake swarms are an ongoing series of human activity-induced earthquakes affecting central Oklahoma, southern Kansas, northern Texas since 2009. [6] [7] [8] Beginning in 2009, the frequency of earthquakes in the U.S. state of Oklahoma rapidly increased from an average of fewer than two 3.0+ magnitude earthquakes per year since 1978 [9] to hundreds each year in the 2014–17 ...
The previous record was a 5.5 magnitude earthquake that struck near the town of El Reno in 1952. [6] The quake's epicenter was approximately 44 miles (71 km) east-northeast of Oklahoma City, near the town of Sparks and was felt in the neighboring states of Texas, Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri and even as far away as Tennessee and Wisconsin. [7]
The epicenter of Friday's quake nearly matched that of a 5.7 quake in 2011, and Oklahoma's strongest recorded earthquake happened 60 miles to the north in Pawnee with a magnitude of 5.8 in 2016.
The 2016 Oklahoma earthquake occurred on September 3, 2016, near Pawnee, Oklahoma.Measuring 5.8 on the moment magnitude scale, it is the strongest in state history. [1] [2] At 5.8 magnitude, this ties it with the 2011 Virginia earthquake, which was determined after it struck to be the most powerful quake in the eastern United States in the preceding 70 years.