At least 8 minor earthquakes shake parts of Okla.

Source: AP

Friday, August 28, 2009
At least 8 minor earthquakes shake parts of Okla.
Associated Press


Ada, Okla. -- At least eight minor earthquakes have been recorded in central and southern Oklahoma in a single day.

The latest was a 2.3 magnitude quake recorded at 11:15 p.m. Thursday, about 15 miles northeast of Oklahoma City. Before that, a 3.7 magnitude earthquake was recorded at 9:09 p.m. in the Oklahoma City suburb of Jones. The National Earthquake Information Center recorded all eight earthquakes.

No damage or injuries have been reported.

Also on Thursday there was a 3.4 magnitude earthquake recorded at 3:22 a.m. in southeast Oklahoma. Five other earthquakes that ranged from 2.5 to 2.7 were near suburban Jones.

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Gawd is sending a message to Oklahoma's US Senators, Imhofe and Coburn.

:eyes:

To be scientific though, the midwest has its earthquake faults, most notably the New Madrid fault east of Oklahoma in Missouri. As a Californian those earthquake magnitudes are a mild massage to us. Far scarier and more devastating are the tornadoes that middle Americans seem to shrug off.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2009kvbl.php

are signs of God's wrath. Please.

I would beg to differ with you about "middle Americans" "shrugging off" tornadoes. I don't think anyone shrugs off tornadoes. Just because Californians don't get too rattled by small quakes doesn't mean Midwesterners are equally blase about tornadoes.

them, and the Armageddon style thunder storms that ushered them in, than any local. When I was in Kansas, going to school there, we had a tunnel to go into when there were tornado warnings. Me and two other fellow Californians were the only ones who often spent the night there sleeping on a concrete floor. One night I made up my mind that no matter how bad things got, I wasn't going down into the tunnel. That night a tornado struck two miles from the school with devastation and loss of lives. One of my roommates from a ranching family in Western Kansas lost a herd of black angus cattle in a tornado one summer. :scared: I convinced my parents not to make me go to school there anymore or anywhere there were tornadoes. btw I don't know if there are any studies on this, but I believe if you documented the past fifty years in earthquakes and tornadoes, in the USA you would find that there were relatively few deaths from earthquakes compared to the twisters.

any day of the week!

However, whenever I hear some nincompoop claiming to speak for God in the face of a natural disaster because of this or that imagined slight to the Almighty's dignity, it doesn't hurt to have an example like this at hand. "Okay, if the hurricanes heading toward Florida are a sign of God's anger at Disney World hosting Gay Days, then why is Oklahoma getting earthquakes? Is it due to the opposition of their senatorial contingent to universal health care? After all, God seems to have an annoying preoccupation with the poorest and neediest people in society, and Senators Inhofe and Coburn would seem to be acting in a very counter-biblical manner."

It's just possible that we can move the conversation past who is God's BFF this week, acknowledge that natural disasters are nothing more than natural disasters, and get about the business of making our society work better for more of its members.

deserved it, or that the devastating earthquake in San Francisco that collapsed a double deck freeway was because of the gays. :thumbsdown:

It will be far worse than anything California has ever seen...Not to mention nothing is built for earthquakes in that area. It would be a disaster unlike anything we have seen in recent times!

building codes have to meet earthquake standards like they do in California.

but I also read somewhere once that, in addition to that fact, there is something different about the rock or the way the plates meet (or something - I can't remember specifically what the information said) that basically causes any earthquake in the midwest, in particular along the New Madrid fault, to be felt over a MUCH, MUCH bigger area than those in California. So you would be looking at a huge area of devastation. According to Wikipedia, the big quakes in 1811 & 1812 were felt strongly over an estimated area of 50,000 sq. miles! And felt moderately over 1 million sq. miles. Compared to the big San Fran earthquake that was felt moderately over 6,000 sq. miles. At least one of the quakes rang church bells in New York and Boston!

A big quake on that fault would be horrific.

Those two hogschnozzles live in D.C. or thereabouts.
If that's you gawd, please remember this.
Of course they may be back in OK for recess.

from other states.

there is a substantial concentration of imbeciles in DC.

So don't be surprised if..................

... It's just Bart, swingin' his hammer!

I live in southern Illinois, right along the New Madrid fault line. We had a couple of 3.4 earthquakes last year, about 2 oclock in the morning. The bed was shaking so it woke me up and in my half asleep state I thought maybe a gas line had ruptured under the house and my next thought was trying to find the cats and go outside. Then it stopped. I went back to sleep rather uneasily but found out the next morning that it was an earthquake. Towns farther south and east of us had receieved the worst of it, especially old buildings. But what stuck out in my mind was an interview that a station did with some kids. One of them, a teenage boy, stated that when he felt the earthquake, his first thought was that a meth lab had blown up somewhere close. Pretty sad isn't it! Meth is a big problem in rural areas like this because the ingredients are easy to get (from farming chemicals) and you can set up a lab in the country in a trailer or cabin and no one knows you are even there until you blow up the building.