Quake Watch 2011

1201 midnight US Central, I just felt more floor/chair bobbing. Aftershock?

reply to post by Saucerwench

Here's a link to the USGS site - updated every few minutes. The last update was at 05:00 UTC, right before you felt it so it probably won't show for another 10 minutes or so.

earthquake.usgs.gov...

I live in Colonial Beach, VA. When we had our large earthquake a few months ago, I checked the USGS site. It showed a swarm slowly creeping across the country over a three day period prior to ours. I too think they are somehow linked, seeing as how this time last year, none of these places feeling quakes now had a single earthquake. It seems to be getting worse....slowly, but surely.

Originally posted by ericblair4891
There have been two aftershocks around 3M following the 5.6M.

Earthquakes in the Eastern States in the last few month 5+:

Colorado
Virginia
Oklahoma

Texas 4.8M.
And a swarm in Arkansas, and a 4.7M.
Missouri 4.2M

Did I forget any?
Noticing a pattern/

is this on the new madrid fault line?

Originally posted by MoorfNZ
REVISED UP TO 5.6

I'm getting reports of that it has been upgraded to a 5.8

reply to post by ButterCookie


From where?

reply to post by MoorfNZ

Various websites...other posters...

still trying to confirm

It's interesting this swarm in OK appears to be occurring in an area with no known Quaternary faults:


Click for larger size
geohazards.usgs.gov...

The 5.6 happened right between Tulsa and OK City, along with all the other recent ones, and there are no known faults there it appears, unless that map's outdated, which it might be. But it does raise the question about fracking- or it could mean a new fault- or the awakening of an ancient fault.

But it might be the gas company's fault.

It someone's fault, isn't it?

Oh yes. Of course. It's HAARP's fault.

I live in Newfoundland, a couple paddles from eastern US.
Anyways, for the past 3 days I've felt rumbles and I thought I was friggin' losin' it.

Loud bass noises outside too.

These quakes around OKL/KC-MO are weird. I mean, I'm all for accepting the theory that the Sun is going into another hellish phase, and that our Earth is always changing, and just because something happened so many years ago, and because we have carbon dating, doesn't mean we know our stuff. However, I think I read somewhere that the US is testing bombs and stuff in their underground dwellings which reside in these areas?

Something else to think about though it's probably all natural.

Seems like a hell of a lot is happening this year. Don't even say it's because of more media coverage because I've been using the same tools of moderation for a few years now. "Unusual" things happen weekly to monthly all over the planet, it's hard to really say, although, I would definitely be in alert mode if I lived in this area in case a 6+ strikes which could end badly.

Originally posted by TrueAmerican
It's interesting this swarm in OK appears to be occurring in an area with no known Quaternary faults:


Click for larger size
geohazards.usgs.gov...

The 5.6 happened right between Tulsa and OK City, along with all the other recent ones, and there are no known faults there it appears, unless that map's outdated, which it might be. But it does raise the question about fracking- or it could mean a new fault- or the awakening of an ancient fault.

But it might be the gas company's fault.

It someone's fault, isn't it?

Oh yes. Of course. It's HAARP's fault.

Wouldn't it all be part of the Reelfoot Rift which is fractured into lots of faults, including the New Madrid.?

According to the app I posted on the last page, Oklahoma has had a 4.7, 5.6, 3.6, 3.4, 3.3, 3.3, 2.7, 2.7, and a 3.4 in the last hour and a half. It feeds from USGS.


Edit to say: this comment is incorrect and has been explained in another post below.

Originally posted by MoorfNZ
Wouldn't it all be part of the Reelfoot Rift which is fractured into lots of faults, including the New Madrid.?

I think this is a bit south of that. But here is another map of faults in OK, and still, the gas companies may have some explaining to do:

www.democraticunderground.com...

Originally posted by TrueAmerican

Originally posted by MoorfNZ
Wouldn't it all be part of the Reelfoot Rift which is fractured into lots of faults, including the New Madrid.?

I think this is a bit south of that. But here is another map of faults in OK, and still, the gas companies may have some explaining to do:

www.democraticunderground.com...

Austin Holland, a researcher with the Oklahoma Geological Survey, said the earthquakes occurred on a known fault line. Roughly 40 aftershocks have taken place after the initial 4.8 magnitude earthquake.

www.newson6.com...

reply to post by Agarta


This is USGS most recent events list for area so no, there haven't been lots of aftershocks, they were foreshocks if anything and all those weren't in the last 1.5 hours, they started yesterday.

MAP 5.6 2011/11/06 03:53:10 35.599 -96.752 5.0 OKLAHOMA
MAP 3.6 2011/11/05 14:36:30 35.584 -96.789 4.9 OKLAHOMA
MAP 3.4 2011/11/05 13:42:26 35.530 -96.766 5.0 OKLAHOMA
MAP 3.3 2011/11/05 11:24:15 35.521 -96.778 5.0 OKLAHOMA
MAP 3.3 2011/11/05 09:12:11 35.591 -96.788 4.9 OKLAHOMA
MAP 2.7 2011/11/05 07:50:42 35.559 -96.762 4.8 OKLAHOMA
MAP 2.7 2011/11/05 07:44:34 35.488 -96.755 5.0 OKLAHOMA
MAP 3.4 2011/11/05 07:27:20 35.566 -96.698 5.0 OKLAHOMA
MAP 4.7 2011/11/05 07:12:45 35.553 -96.748 4.0 OKLAHOMA

earthquake.usgs.gov...

I was on the USGS site and there was a question to click on to post your experience to them (like ufos to mufon! Haha) and they had a --lot-- of questions. wanted my address and zip.
I'm so far from the Ok epicenter, they probably wont believe me! ("Take a symethicone for your swamp gas!")

Originally posted by Saucerwench
I was on the USGS site and there was a question to click on to post your experience to them (like ufos to mufon! Haha) and they had a --lot-- of questions. wanted my address and zip.
I'm so far from the Ok epicenter, they probably wont believe me! ("Take a symethicone for your swamp gas!")

But seriously, report it if you felt it - sure sounds like you felt S-waves to me

reply to post by MoorfNZ


Thank you, I was coming back to fix that. The settings are only sequential numbers and mine is set to 1.5, I made a bad assumption that it was hours but it is days. Sorry for the mistake and thank you for correcting it for me.

reply to post by MoorfNZ


Why do I have horrid visions of big powerful and rich gas companies slipping a cool mil here and there to get a "phantom fault" included on a fault map? Right close to where a fracking well might be?

Seriously though, I seen a few different fault maps now for OK, and most of their known faults are in SW OK. I am still having trouble finding one showing a fault near this 5.6.

Click here to see photos from the Oklahoma quake

Originally posted by TrueAmerican
reply to post by MoorfNZ

 

Why do I have horrid visions of big powerful and rich gas companies slipping a cool mil here and there to get a "phantom fault" included on a fault map? Right close to where a fracking well might be?

Seriously though, I seen a few different fault maps now for OK, and most of their known faults are in SW OK. I am still having trouble finding one showing a fault near this 5.6.

I think the area is riddled with unknown faults - much like they're recently discovered here on the Canterbuy Plains in New Zealand since our 7.1. Who knows how much influence the failed Reelfoot Rift has on a wider area - it's known to be fractured in to many faults, so they probably don't have them all mapped.

Fracking? Maybe.. but obviously the New Madrid events set off in 1811 (almost 100 yrs ago to the day (Dec)) weren't caused by fracking. Sometimes Mother Earth has a role to play...