Posted on 11/06/2011 8:48:26 PM PST by SoonerStorm09
SPARKS, Okla. – Near a remote, dirt road intersection not far from this Lincoln County community, there are at least five visible cracks in the road, evidence of the 5.6 magnitude earthquake that was centered here late Saturday evening, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Having experienced an earthquake both at Red Dirt Report headquarters in Oklahoma City and another one while visiting Oklahoma State University in Stillwater – all in less than 24 hours, your Red Dirt Reporter, along with RDR contributor Ted H. Smith and photographer Marie Mentesana did our research as to the location of the quake’s epicenter and – thanks to researcher “Dutchsinse” – found it near the intersection of N. 3513 Road and E. 1020 Road, just to the northwest of Prague Lake.
Driving to the location from Sparks Road, we did not witness much in the way of damage – save for a few leaning power poles and some cracked walls on buildings – until we got to the epicenter and found a man from Tulsa, who gave his name as “Jason.” Jason had emerged from a pasture along 1020 Road. It was near a creek, which had a bridge across it, which appeared undamaged, despite the magnitude of the earthquake. The pasture was also marked as having a gas pipeline on it, belonging to New Dominion.
Asking if he had seen anything of interest in the area, Jason informed us we had driven over it. Sure enough, large cracks, where the earth had shifted and split, were criss-crossing 1020 Road. We had found the epicenter. It was a bit surreal.
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We felt a tremor here in Missouri. Between Kc and Springfield
Oh, jeez, not the drilling theory again. We’ve been extracting oil and gas from the earth for 100 years, and it suddenly caught up with us last night. /sarcasm
Otherwise, interesting report - thanks. I have driven Sparks Road many times. I also learned the name of the fault today - The Seminole Uplift.
Being from Texas I always suspected that Oklahoma was cracked.
Just waiting for the anti-frack people to jump on this.
Probably a good thing FEMA is out of money so they can’t give everyone there little trailers like in Katrina.
And debit cards to buy lottery tickets and liquor.
I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords from the center of the earth.
Reminds me of that song by Elvis, “I’m All Shook Up”. LOL!
That is considered a major highway in Oklahoma.
They already have. Saw it mentioned in another story here on FR about the quake. *sigh*
Oklahoma Earthquakes for the Last 30 days
http://www.okgeosurvey1.gov/pages/earthquakes/recent-earthquakes.php
(click link to see the map)
Origin Time (UTC)
County
Magnitude
Max MMI
Latitude
Longitude
Depth (km)
2011-11-06 18:26:57
Lincoln
3.1 Md
35.4733
-96.8687
3.1
2011-11-06 11:03:52
Lincoln
3.1 ML
35.4964
-96.8383
5.0
2011-11-06 10:52:35
Lincoln
3.8 ML
35.5368
-96.7794
3.1
2011-11-06 09:39:57
Pottawatomie
3.9 ML
35.4691
-96.8653
5.0
2011-11-06 03:53:10
Lincoln
5.3 mbLg
35.5316
-96.7654
5.2
2011-11-05 13:42:26
Lincoln
3.2 ML
35.5303
-96.7656
5.0
2011-11-05 13:09:58
Lincoln
2.6 ML
35.5333
-96.7784
5.0
2011-11-05 12:34:27
Lincoln
2.5 ML
35.5243
-96.7585
5.0
2011-11-05 11:36:06
Lincoln
2.2 ML
35.5223
-96.7618
5.0
2011-11-05 11:24:15
Lincoln
3.4 ML
35.5252
-96.7731
5.0
2011-11-05 09:12:11
Lincoln
3.3 ML
35.5282
-96.7657
5.0
2011-11-05 08:51:18
Lincoln
2.4 ML
35.5324
-96.7580
3.2
2011-11-05 07:55:35
Lincoln
2.6 ML
35.5328
-96.7567
5.0
2011-11-05 07:50:42
Lincoln
2.6 ML
35.5538
-96.7694
5.0
2011-11-05 07:44:34
Lincoln
2.6 ML
35.5396
-96.7608
5.0
2011-11-05 07:27:19
Lincoln
3.3 ML
35.5439
-96.7646
3.2
2011-11-05 07:12:45
Lincoln
4.8 ML
35.5501
-96.7637
3.1
2011-11-05 02:19:48
Blaine
2.8 Md
35.8378
-98.4026
1.2
2011-11-04 12:52:36
Oklahoma
1.9 Md
35.6202
-97.2170
7.7
2011-11-04 03:30:31
Oklahoma
2.9 Md
35.5703
-97.2928
3.3
2011-11-03 14:20:33
Logan
2.3 Md
35.8523
-97.3931
1.2
2011-11-01 10:41:47
Oklahoma
2.0 Md
35.5658
-97.2850
3.2
2011-11-01 10:25:40
Oklahoma
2.1 Md
35.5694
-97.2880
3.2
***Just waiting for the anti-frack people to jump on this.***
They’re all over at DU practicing falling down and throwing tantrums.
I think the planet’s getting ready to split in half. Shouldn’t be a big deal.
I’ve got 72 wells on the big ranch all TD’d at around 9000 ft and all had big frack jobs or at least big for these type wells and we’re still standing, not even a quiver. To believe fracing could cause earth quakes is beyond ignorance. This county is just over 1000 square miles and in some area’s the wells are spaced 40 acres apart with little of the county not being drilled. Theres almost 400,000 wells scattered all across TX and most if not all have had some type of fracing.
It's the latest fad for environmentalists.....blame everything bad on drilling....just like they blame every significant weather event on "climate change".
There was a 71 year old OK. woman on the news saying she didn’t think this was over and to be watchful over the next few.
HUMM
Maybe God is trying to make a mountain out of a molehill.
Road near my house in Bridge Creek, OK, looks like this every August.
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