California folks may laugh, but the first time you feel the earth move, and it's not orgasm related? Pretty freaky indeed! The helpless feeling..

My wife's from the Bay area and she wasn't particularly thrilled with the one last night.

JR

I can't remember the last earthquake I felt. I was 4 years old and slept through the Northridge earthquake. I feel left out. I live just a couple miles from a fault here in San Luis Obispo but nothing.

My dad was pointing out how nobodies home insurance in ok covers quakes, might be something to add....

I asked my insurance agent about earthquake insurance for my house a few months ago. He siad it would be over 300 bucks a year more money. I suspect that rate just went up. :)

hurricanes may knock us down a bit but if there's ever an earthquake in Louisiana it's over! the ground would liquify and everything would sink straight down. we sitting on land built up by river depositing silt for eons. you need a oil rig drilling a string of pipe to hit bedrock. the only natural rock/stone I've ever seen was brought in on barges. you can feel the ground shake blocks away from someone driving pilings for a house slab.. when it's real late at night and everything's quiet, even while lying in bed I can sometimes feel the train passing thru a 1/2 mile away. a small earthquake, a little shaking and we're all going underground. still.. I'd like to experience it one day.

Yeah, ground like that would shake like a bowl of Jello. Where I live we have almost a jolt a week. We just had one a couple of nights ago. They're mostly really small, but they are very frequent. The deductible for quake insurance is pretty high. That's one of the major drawbacks.

Just had another roller....

Have you heard if these are from the New Madrid fault complex?

There is a fault just east of OKC, that is where they are all centered....

Where is all the ground displacement going? It is not like a subduction zone or the San Andreas. Tell the fault to cut it out.

Well, there is some speculation that it could have something to do with all the oilfield activity.... They have punched a TON of holes in OK in the last ten years.... And the fracking, well they pump fluids into the bedrock, getting it to spread out so they can suck the natural gas out. Seems like that could be a cause.

The USGS is denying that however...

The last 24 hours in Oklahoma have seen higher than normal temps, numerous earthquakes/aftershocks, heavy rain, flooding, hail, and tornados. IF I SEE LOCUST, I AM OUT OF HERE!!!

I remember an earthquake happening when I was sitting at my parents' dining room table eating lunch. I was maybe a freshman in HS. Chandelier was swaying, cracked the deck on the back patio.

Big enough to feel, not big enough to do much damage. Hurricanes scare me a bit, earthquakes, not so much.

Earthquake might last a minute, hurricane might last a week.

You don't live on the shore of any lake do you?

You should be safe from the tsunami glen is predicting then...

Honestly our twisters are still worse than the quakes... Several houses were leveled this afternoon with very little warning to the occupants. OK has some of the best meteorologists and we still are doing good to give 10mins warning about a direct hit. Twisters spin up big here, and flatten everything in their path.

a tornado stayed on the ground for an hour, tonight....

Yes, I was watching the helicopter coverage.... Was insane watching it go over the Wichita mtns...