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[okiebluegrass]

Things sure were a shaking here in OKC for a few minutes this morning. Anybody else feel it?

[Junior]

There apparently was a small earthquake here in NW Arkansas just yesterday. It was reported in the news last night. Several people felt it in Benton County. There have been several small earthquakes in this area in the last year. Normally unheard of. I used to live in southeast Mo and northeast Arkansas, and they were not common, but occurred from time to time in the 80s and 90s. Right on the New Madrid fault line. If that fault ever has a big shift, and apparently one big un is long overdue...it will flatten St. Louis to Memphis in seconds. It will make Hurricane Katrina look like a gentle spring rain. No joke. So hang on tight in Oklahoma!

[shavethewhales]

Apparently the epicenter was just a few miles to the east of Norman near lake Thunderbird. The OU campus was shaken pretty hard, but I didn't really notice since I was on the first floor of a massive concrete building that doubles as a science/math center and campus bomb shelter. A couple of the buildings had broken glass and bricks though. Fun way to start off Wednesday.

[sanddunerider]

wow!  glad no serious damage

[MissinTheGreenTrams]

oh boy.......a biggun huh? there is also a reported volcano in missouri.....how fun is that???

[Junior]

I was sleeping in bed in my parents house in Sikeston, MO in 1990 and got woke up by a shaking sensation, we were having a good earthquake...I lept from bed, looked out the window, and the asphalt street in front of the house looked like an old rag rug someone had grabbed by an end and was shaking it out...that asphalt just had wave after wave of "shock" running through it. Sounded like someone was driving a big ole heavy concrete or dump truck down the road with the metal bed coming loose and it making several loud pops and bangs. It was around 3.5 to 4.0 on the Richter Scale, relatively pretty mild, but it was more than enough for me. I remember that during that same period...roughly around 1984 or 1985, I was driving along I-55 in Southeast Missouri between Cape Girardeau and Sikeston and an earthquake hit...it felt like I suddenly had a tire go out and the car just jumped and swayed for a few seconds, pretty weird, but nothing too serious. As a news reporter, I spoke on the phone in 1989 and again in 1990 to Dr. Iben Browning of California, a scientist who claimed that a big earthquake on the New Madrid Fault was likely to occur in a specific time period in 1990. The prediction rattled the news media in the region, and Browning was misquoted and virtually became a recluse after being bombarded by media calls when the date approached and passed with nothing happening. He was an interesting character. But, as mentioned in my previous posting on this thread, when the big one hits, it will flatten towns and cities in Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Kentucky and Illinois within seconds, cause massive flooding and building collapses, and will be felt from the Rocky Mts. to Boston and New York. Do a Google search about the earthquakes of 1811-1812 on the New Madrid Fault, you will be amazed.

[okiebluegrass]

^^^^ Shave the Whales,

I had no idea you were here in Oklahoma. I work at an unnamed computer company at the corner of I-44 and I-40. The whole building shook. I thought they dropped something on the roof or somebody drove into the side of the building. I was a little "shaken" sorry, I couldn't resist,

[MissinTheGreenTrams]

I have found between all of the posts that most of us are from around the area. save a few in illinoise which is just a giant leap away. We are like one big family. I just hope the big predicted earthquake happens AFTER the good Lord does his swoop and takes me to heaven. I would be devestated to see it.

[Junior]

AMEN! But the increase in earthquakes in the last few years make me wonder if the big one on the New Madrid fault is not close at hand...but only the Lord knows, and he won't say anything until it happens.

[rubedugans]

LIke Iben Browning, who is credited by some for predicting high stress periods that coincided with the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, and the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, I was teaching about earthquakes, and took a planner, and picked a date within the following year....announced the date, talked it up, as a sort of joke, and low and behold a 6.Something on the scale hit S. America that day. The kids had me pick another...I chose , at random, April 18, 2008...I publicized it again, as a joke, and coincidence....We awoke that morning to the house shaking, and when it stopped...the wife said "Are you *&^^%$#%$ kidding me?" She couldn't believe I did it again...in MO. Needless to say the 5.2 in Missouri was a buzz everywhere, and I was asked for months when the NEXT would be...I am not saying the NEXT date chosen at random, but watch out! It is coming! As if you already couldn't figure that out by the New Madrid Fault history...

[biscuitcreek]

There have been several earthquakes in central AR this week including a 4.4 one this morning near Guy (just north of Conway).

[saladdays]

I live in Springfield, and I've never once felt any type of quake (so far).

[KBCraig]

Lots of small quakes is a good thing: it relieves stress to avoid the really big quake.

[okiebluegrass]

Lot of seismic activity. Anybody else seen the movie 2012? Guess SDC would be the place to be if the big one hit. I'd be having a good time as it took me out.

[How-doFolks]

Didnt feel anything while we was at SDC Thurs. & Fri.