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    Small earthquake recorded in central Oklahoma

    PRAGUE, Okla. (AP) — A small earthquake hit central Oklahoma just in time for Thanksgiving dinner.

    The U.S. Geological Survey recorded a 3.7 magnitude quake about 3:11 p.m. Thursday near Prague, Okla. The epicenter of the quake was 17 miles northeast of Shawnee and 44 miles east of Oklahoma City.

    There weren't any immediate reports of damage or injuries, said Jessica Elder, a 911 dispatcher in surrounding Lincoln County. She said she felt the quake, which she described as more of a boom than a rumble.

    Geologists say earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 to 3.0 are generally the smallest felt by humans.

    But Elder hadn't received many calls about the quake — perhaps because people in the region are growing accustomed to them, she said.

    A 5.6 magnitude earthquake centered close to nearby Sparks shook the state on Nov. 5. That quake, the strongest ever recorded in Oklahoma, damaged more than 40 homes, buckled part of a highway and caused the collapse of a tower at St. Gregory's University in Shawnee.

    Gov. Mary Fallin has requested a federal disaster declaration in the wake of a series of earthquakes that have rumbled through the state in recent weeks.

     
    • Christopher  •  5 mths ago
      it's Bush's fault....the Democrats said so! .......so it's true
    • William  •  Mineral Wells, United States  •  6 mths ago
      An interesting fact, is that since they've been purposefully keeping track of earthquakes, they have been happening more and more often and much stronger. More than likely, this kind of stuff will continue to intensify.
      • LeH 6 mths ago
        It will unless America changes its ways. Earthquakes, fires, drought, extremely severe weather are on the rise and will continue to until changes are made.
    • Deborah  •  6 mths ago
      there is a fault line in the middle of the country.
      • Tai-274-Wan 6 mths ago
        If and when Jerusalem is divided, the United States will have the same problem.
      • Wolfy 6 mths ago
        Yeah, Deborah, it is the Mears / Madrid fault line.
      • auld faht 6 mths ago
        Not MY fault!
    • Auntie Social  •  San Diego, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Just big enough to make the cranberry sauce jiggle.
    • Alan W.  •  6 mths ago
      OOOOOOOOOOOOOKlahoma where the streets are buckling in the sun.. Where the fracking's great and it's not too late, to drill a well and you can get you summmmmm, OOOOOOOOOOOKlahoma where the rocks are cracking down belowwwwwwww, where injected wells, make for nasty smells and big oil & gas just say it isn;t soooooooooo.....
      • rDawg 6 mths ago
        Oklahooomaaaaaa OK!
      • Deerslayer 6 mths ago
        F wad. It should be Oaklahoma where theres a ton of oil. Oaklahoma where we should ignore it to make the middle east rich. Lalalalala.
      • greg 6 mths ago
        Outstanding Alan, now I cant get that song out of my head.
    • James  •  6 mths ago
      We get tremors all the time down here in the Barnett Shale area from drilling. Just waiting for our water wells to start tasting funny.
      • Trainer 6 mths ago
        Yet another idiot spewing their ignorance. I live in an area surrounded my wells that have been hydraulicly fractured and mines deep in the earth stretching out for miles and the town I live in is on a fault line and yet we rarely have earth quakes. Now explain that fool! Think for yourself and stop being a parot.
      • AnthonyL 6 mths ago
        trainer sucks the corporate cawk.
    • Doug J  •  Baltimore, United States  •  6 mths ago
      3.7 ? May have just been Holiday bodily gas,from all that rich food
    • got_7_NC  •  6 mths ago
      It wasn't an earthquake, it was just Obama's approval ratings hitting bottom.
    • shelly  •  6 mths ago
      Yellowstone Volcano got a quake on the 22nd of this month and ever since then it's been more active around there, in parts of Montana, et., this is one of the big ones we have to be concerned about and take notice of, especially. Nothing we can do about it, but know they are going to happen and Yellowstone is going to blow. It's getting to be nothing new, when we have quakes anywhere anymore, they are almost expected to happen.
    • AnthonyL  •  6 mths ago
      lol @ what the frack is going on?
    • A Yahoo! User  •  St. Louis, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Last BIG quake on the New Madrid fault was 1811/1812. Read up on it. Really cool. If it happened today (2011/2012) thousands would die.
    • LeslieB  •  Oklahoma City, United States  •  6 mths ago
      I knew it! I felt it in Norman!
    • MaxaMinion  •  6 mths ago
      When Oklahoma vanishes one day in a fault, in a poof of natural gas and methane, the drillers will say "It wasn't me!!"
    • blackpearl  •  Dallas, United States  •  6 mths ago
      There is a town named New Madrid, MO. It lies a little over 500 miles to the east, north of Memphis, TN. I don't know where the New Madrid fault line lies, but it stand to reason there are other towns in other states along the fault line, but Oklahoma is the only state suffering earthquakes. That may be due to fracking.
    • Barb Patrice  •  Irvine, United States  •  6 mths ago
      I suppose you are going to blame fracking for the OK earthquakes that happened September 1918, December 27, 1929, April 9,11, 15, and 16, July 16, and August 14,1952, March 17, 1953, February 16, April 2, and October 30, 1956, June 17, 1959, January 10, and April 27, 1961, October 14, 1968 and May 2, 1969 as well.. gawd forbid it might actually be Mother Nature. Because we all know that Every single bad thing that happens in nature must automatically be man's fault.
    • Jilly  •  6 mths ago
      My cousin that lives there says and was told fracking is causing them
    • Chuck W  •  Philadelphia, United States  •  6 mths ago
      I wonder if fracking is still economically viable when the very act of getting at the gas may result in billions of dollars in damages due to quakes and water table contamination? This extra side cost is not reflected in the price of gas.. it needs to be.
    • Ivan Wakinov  •  Milwaukee, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Sorry everybody.My brother dropped a 30lb turkey on the floor when we we're there yesterday.
    • screenmobbed  •  6 mths ago
      The UK has admitted that their recent quakes are caused by fracking. Arkansas has PROVEN the same...

      Fracking means earthquakes now, and massive water contamination later -- GE's water purication division depends on it!
    • D  •  6 mths ago
      Fracking has already wrecked havoc in PA and has polluted many rivers, lakes & even underground water. In some places, residents water coming out of their faucets in their homes spew out FIRE!! No joke - just Google or Youtube " PA Fracking"
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