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Friday, January 8th, 2016

Magnitude 4.7 and 4.8 Earthquakes Shake Oklahoma 30 Seconds Apart; 22 Quakes Reported in 13 Hours

Author:     Jon Erdman
Source:     The Weather Channel
Publication Date:     7 Janaury 2016
 Link: Magnitude 4.7 and 4.8 Earthquakes Shake Oklahoma 30 Seconds Apart; 22 Quakes Reported in 13 Hours
Stephan:   Wow, 27 earthquakes in the last week alone. Oklahoma is experiencing as pure an example of social karma as I can remember. The voters voted for a government that encouraged fracking and now they must live with the result.
Oklahoma earthquake swarm credit: weather channel

Oklahoma earthquake swarm
credit: weather channel

A pair of moderate earthquakes shook northwest Oklahoma late Wednesday night, part of the latest swarm of Sooner State temblors since Wednesday morning.

A 4.7-magnitude tremor was followed 30 seconds later by another 4.8-magnitude quake centered in a sparsely populated area about 20 miles northwest of Fairview, Oklahoma, about 97 miles northwest of Oklahoma City. The quakes struck at depths of 2.1 and 3.7 miles below the surface.The twin earthquakes occurred at 10:27 p.m. CST Wednesday night and were felt from central Kansas to southern Oklahoma and the eastern Texas panhandle, including in Wichita, Kansas, and the Oklahoma City metropolitan area.

KWTV said some of its viewers reported damage in their homes. There were no reported injuries in either Majors or Woods Counties, near the epicenter of the twin quakes, according to newsok.com.

The 4.8-magnitude quake was the strongest in the Sooner State since the November 2011 swarm that included the state’s strongest on record, a 5.6-magnitude temblor in Prague on Nov. 6, 2011. It was […]

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