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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.
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 ...
Then, shortly before midnight on Friday, a 5.1-magnitude quake struck that was centered about 5 miles (8 kilometers) northwest of Prague, Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Geological Survey reported.
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 2011 Oklahoma earthquake was a 5.7 magnitude intraplate earthquake which occurred near Prague, Oklahoma on November 5 at 10:53 p.m. CDT (03:53 UTC November 6) in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. [3] The epicenter of the earthquake was in the vicinity of several active wastewater injection wells.
The earthquake struck at 11:24 p.m. and was centered 8 kilometers (5 miles) northwest of Prague, Oklahoma, about 57 miles (92 ki Oklahoma rattled by shallow 5.1 magnitude earthquake Skip to main ...
On November 5, 2011 a series of earthquakes struck near Prague, the first one a magnitude 4.7 at 2:15 a.m. CST, followed by a series of aftershocks, and then a second quake of magnitude 5.7 at 10:53 p.m. CST, the strongest recorded in Oklahoma history until a 5.8-magnitude earthquake occurred on September 3, 2016. This continued on November 7 ...
State authorities ordered more restrictions Thursday on oil and gas wastewater disposal wells near the epicenter of the 5.1-magnitude earthquake and 40-plus aftershocks last weekend near Prague.