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Today's 4.4 Earthquake: Did you feel it?

11 years ago

Well, I didn't feel it, but given that so many of you are much further north, maybe you did.

Did your house wiggle? Did the garden quake and shake? Were tomatoes jumping off the counter and bouncing across the floor?

Bon, Y'all okay up there? I always think of you whenever there's an earthquake.

Johnny, Were the plants in your garden swaying like skyscrapers in LA?

When will it end?

If you felt it, remember to go to the USGS website linked below and make your report. The reports they receive are an important part of their research.

Dawn


USGS: Did You Feel It Page for OK's 4.4 that occurred today.

Comments (14)

  • 11 years ago

    I was outside mowing and didn't feel it. I'm glad, too. It's so nerve-wracking. The other house is still up on jacks, too. omg .. my poor husband. He hasn't been here when a hefty quake hit - the kind that makes your eyes roll around in your head. So, he watches in curiosity while I go nuts trying to distract myself while he works on the foundation of that old house. (It's going well, tho.)

  • 11 years ago

    My office is on the third story of our building. I heard a noise like a gust of wind hitting the side of the building, and then I heard the blinds move (they are metal in metal frames). I didn't actually feel anything though. Twitter had varying ranges on who felt it and who didn't. Facebook seems to have decided not longer to comment :)

  • 11 years ago

    I haven't felt any here but while I was overseas I felt a few. Missed a big 8.3 by a few days before I got to my duty station.

  • 11 years ago

    Didn't feel it at all... and we were sitting on the floor, playing with the train set. ;)

    Moni and Allison

  • 11 years ago

    Definitely felt it (5th floor)....first was the jolt (as though something hit our building), then came the fading rumbles....no sound where I was, but we're pretty insulated.
    Others that were up and walking around said they did not feel it :)

    Sharon

  • 11 years ago

    I felt the "gust of wind" hit the house, but nothing after that. I asked my son if he felt it, but he didn't.

    Sammy

  • 11 years ago

    NW OKC. Felt it on the 4th floor. Scared the tar out of me. I lived in CA for 20 years and have felt way more quakes here.

  • 11 years ago

    I'm too far south so almost never feel them, but felt 2 of them about 6 weeks apart a few years back. My husband and son never are home when we feel them here, so they were feeling kind of left out, and then earthquakes starting happening in Irving, TX, close to where they work. Now they have felt more earthquakes than I have, although the ones down there are much weaker, so I retain bragging rights for feeling the stronger earthquakes.

    I read somewhere a few months ago that Oklahoma is having more earthquakes than California in recent years. Thankfully, all of ours are relatively small ones.

  • 11 years ago

    I'm afraid ours will not stay small though. I have only felt one in Oklahoma, (since all of this recent activity started) but have felt them in Greece and many in Alaska. I just watched a big report on the one they expect to hit the Pacific Northwest and they say it isn't IF, but WHEN.

  • 11 years ago

    The state with the most earthquakes is Alaska, actually. Of course, those areas are not heavily populated and don't garner the attention that California does. California ranked second when I looked up the statistics.

    That is past tense.

    Today, Oklahoma has the most quakes than any other state in the union with Alaska coming up second and Cali. third.

  • 11 years ago

    I recall certain ones sounding like a train horn a split-second before the "bang" which resembles the house being bumped by a semi tractor trailer. I haven't found anyone that understands this noise. It is terrifying to hear the bowels of the earth scream like that, to say the least.

  • 11 years ago

    Generally you only hear those sounds when you're fairly close to it, so I can see where other people who haven't been close enough to a quake to hear it might not understand what it is like.

  • 11 years ago

    That makes sense. ty

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