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A 4.5 magnitude earthquake shook up parts of northern Oklahoma late Monday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey. The National Weather Service in Tulsa tweeted just after noon ...
Reviewed M 4.2 earthquake in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma at 21:46:28 01/12 Oklahoma local time (UTC: 03:46:28 01/13) — OGS Earthquakes (@OKearthquakes) January 13, 2024 More: The Oklahoman's ...
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 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 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 ...
Oklahoma experienced swarms of minor earthquakes that attracted public attention in Oklahoma, starting after 2005 - 2006, when there was an increase in oil and gas exploration. [8] Most of these were low-magnitude (less than 3.0 on the moment magnitude scale ), caused little physical damage and occurred in lightly populated rural areas of north ...
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.
The fault may generate strong earthquakes in the future; [70] earthquakes with magnitudes M w 7.5–8 might be possible on the Meers fault [71] and an earthquake similar to the Holocene ones would be felt over large parts of the continent, including Oklahoma and Texas, [58] with intensities comparable to these of the 1886 Charleston earthquake ...