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4.1 quake in Oklahoma

#1 Postby cycloneye » Sat Feb 27, 2010 6:22 pm

Planet earth is shaking a lot lately and the U.S. mainland is no exception.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... 10tfe4.php

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Magnitude 4.4
Date-Time Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 22:22:27 UTC
Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 04:22:27 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 35.623°N, 96.762°W
Depth 3.8 km (2.4 miles) (poorly constrained)
Region OKLAHOMA
Distances 5 km (3 miles) ENE (74°) from Sparks, OK
9 km (6 miles) S (179°) from Davenport, OK
15 km (9 miles) SE (130°) from Chandler, OK
72 km (44 miles) ENE (77°) from Oklahoma City, OK
314 km (195 miles) N (0°) from Dallas, TX

Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 14.1 km (8.8 miles); depth +/- 3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Parameters NST= 61, Nph= 68, Dmin=72.1 km, Rmss=1.48 sec, Gp= 65°,
M-type="Nuttli" surface wave magnitude (mbLg), Version=7
Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)


Event ID us2010tfe4
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#2 Postby StormingB81 » Sat Feb 27, 2010 6:27 pm

What is with all these Earthquakes!!
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#3 Postby Extremeweatherguy » Sat Feb 27, 2010 6:45 pm

I felt the quake here about 50 miles SW of the epicenter. I thought a car had run into the building at first because it was a very sudden and loud shake (lasting only a few seconds), but after looking outside and realizing no car had hit I determined it must have been an earthquake. Luckily we were far enough removed from the epicenter to receive any kind of damage.
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#4 Postby KWT » Sat Feb 27, 2010 6:58 pm

Wow yet another earthquake, what an amazing 24hrs for earthquakes, and a very shakey few weeks in general!
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#5 Postby Gustywind » Sat Feb 27, 2010 7:09 pm

:eek: wow another one... is a sad euphemisma. My prayers for all countries, islands facing the assaults of these unpredictables quakes :oops: It's awesome, hope that things will calm down a bit, that's seems unrealistic :double: right now!
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#6 Postby KWT » Sat Feb 27, 2010 7:48 pm

It does rather feel like one of those disaster movies right now, with several disasters happening in a row, though to be fair 4.4 isn't too dangerous, still bet it will give some people a surprise!
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#7 Postby Stephanie » Sat Feb 27, 2010 8:53 pm

KWT wrote:It does rather feel like one of those disaster movies right now, with several disasters happening in a row, though to be fair 4.4 isn't too dangerous, still bet it will give some people a surprise!


Yeah it does, but I think this one in OK is larger than the other one felt in January.

Glad you're alright EWG.
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Re: 4.4 quake in Oklahoma

#8 Postby cycloneye » Sat Feb 27, 2010 9:29 pm

Not to sound pesimistic but I am worried about the New Madrid fault located in the central part of the U.S. that may turn active in the future.

Here are graphics that show where it is.

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Re: 4.4 quake in Oklahoma

#9 Postby Stephanie » Sat Feb 27, 2010 9:55 pm

They've been saying that for the longest time Luis. However, with all of the other plates moving and shifting, I wouldn't be a bit surprised. :eek:
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Re: 4.4 quake in Oklahoma

#10 Postby WeatherLovingDoc » Sat Feb 27, 2010 10:34 pm

The January Oklahoma earth quake caught my attention as I noted there one could draw an imaginary line from similar quakes in S. California, then Oklahoma, then Illinois, almost where I wondered if there would be a NE one soon too, but it didn't happen. Plus it was mere co-incidence, not plate tectonics which allowed the imaginary line. I'm sorry though for the good folks of Oklahoma who have experience two jolts in a month or so.

In the aftermath of the magnitude 7.8, April 18 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, the largest horizontal surface fault displacement ever recorded was measured at 21 feet (six and a half meters) at Point Reyes, CA.. The San Andreas Fault is 810 miles long. The point I'm trying to make is while the SA fault line is long, there is only one greatest displacement ever measured on it in modern time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Andreas_Fault

While there have been a lot of recent earthquakes around the world, and while no geologist, it's hard to connect these quakes with one another even besides their thousands of miles of distance: a continental transform San Andreas fault zone, the subduction zone quakes involving Chile and Okinawa, and the famed Pacific "Ring of Fire".

Maybe a forum geologist will weight in on this matter soon, as surely I am just a WLD.
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Re: 4.4 quake in Oklahoma

#11 Postby Cyclenall » Sun Feb 28, 2010 1:34 am

cycloneye wrote:Not to sound pesimistic but I am worried about the New Madrid fault located in the central part of the U.S. that may turn active in the future.

That one will probably go off tomorrow at this rate.
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Re: 4.4 quake in Oklahoma

#12 Postby Stephanie » Sun Feb 28, 2010 10:34 am

There was a small one in NW New Jersey this week, just over 2.0.

There's a hole lot of shakin' goin' on! :eek:
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#13 Postby Gustywind » Sun Feb 28, 2010 10:50 am

We should continue to be vigilant because of any contries, islands can be under the assaults of these unpredictable things. Let's be on our guard as possible!
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Re: 4.4 quake in Oklahoma

#14 Postby Extremeweatherguy » Mon Mar 01, 2010 12:21 am

The Oklahoma quake magnitude was revised down to a 4.1 as of this evening.

Also - here is a look at the finalized shake map from the USGS for this event:

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