'Kay, done with this now.

[naamah_darling]

Another earthquake. This one strong enough to scare the cats and briefly scare the crap out of me. Rattled the pictures on the walls and the windows and all the cabinets, nearly shook stuff off the mantel. The whole place was shuddering, and you could hear it in the ground, like wind. Lasted about a minute, about a 5.2 according to the news

Comments

[jettcat]

I'd plan on staying up for a while as y'all seem to have a swarm of quakes going on.
This also a good time to evaluate emergency supplies and have fresh batteries...

Wait, not for those! I mean for flashlights!

And upgraded to a 5.6 now!

[naamah_darling]

Yeah, there's a lot of little blue squares If they're swarming, something's letting off pressure, and if it's letting off pressure, that's GOOD. Still, I'm digging my go-bag out of the closet and putting it by the door!

We'll be up until well past dawn anyway, so no worries there.

5.6; Jesus.

[jettcat]

Hang in there kiddo, I'll be up around if you need to natter at someone.

[naamah_darling]

I MEANT to say, yeah, there's a lot of little blue squares on the USGS website just north of Shawnee, which makes it about 80-90 miles from here.

We could hear it coming before we felt it. The sound was traveling faster through the air than the vibrations through the ground. *shudder*

[marccarlson]

I really prefer tornados

[naamah_darling]

I am thinking I TOTALLY agree with you.

[marccarlson]

You gotta love Oklahoma.

[ferret]

This .. amuses me. Our 'preferred' form of natural disaster really seems to be influenced by what we have the most experience with.

Earthquakes don't bother me at all. Windstorms (Tornado's, Hurricane's whatever)make me VERY uneasy.

Probably comes from growing up in Alaska where Earthquakes (big ones according to everyone else) are barely noticed by most long time residents, but horrible high speed, especially twisting? windstorms? Almost unheard of.

Hope everyone is alright, and things mellow a bit.

[purplewaxhand]

Earthquakes in Oklahoma? As far as I knew the New Madrid fault didn't go down that far.

[marccarlson]

There are a large number of faults running along the Washita/Ouachita moutains (the best known is the Meers Fault), and a number of branching faults (the largest being the Nemaha fault structure running under I-35 into Kansas). This batch are from a couple of overthrust faults running alongside the Nemaha.

[naamah_darling]

This one was the second worst in the last century, so we don't get them often. Last night's was the first one I had ever actually felt, though not the first one I've ever been here for. This was exceptional.

We're very stable here, generally. Earthquakes do happen east of the Rockies, but not all the fault lines are mapped, and vibration can travel a long-ass way through the bedrock, you can feel them ten times as far as one on the east WEST, I MEANT WEST coast. From the USGS, "In most areas east of the Rockies, the best guide to earthquake hazards is the earthquakes themselves." Which is, you know, just lovely. >_<

Edited for the Queen's Left.

[emsporter]

I'm sure you've already accounted for this, but things to get ready:
* food, and water, and pet food
* torches, blankets, camping type gear if you have any
* cat carriers.

[thorinsmistress]

Hey I even felt it in Austin, over 400 miles away! Just a little shaking, but enough for me to say, "Huh, I think that was an earthquake!!!"