5.6 Magnatude Earthquake in Oklahoma - Felt in Texas

[Prosthetic]

What I was really trying to point out is that there's been several "fairly large" earthquakes this year in not-so-common places. Like Virginia, Oklahoma and Colorado.

5.6 and 5.9 aren't fairly large, they are small. 7.0 is fairly large, 8.0 is huge and higher and its massive and likely to cause large destruction to badly constructed buildings and bridges but a place like the West Coast could survive it relatively well because we build things correctly here. A 5's and 6's are aftershocks that do nothing but attempt to scare people. The only earthquake that's scary is one that lasts more then 10 seconds or your first one. Sadly my first one was a 6.5 back when I was a kid and I thought it was fun and exciting. In fact every time I can actually feel one its exciting.

Like I said... the tectonic plates are always moving... maybe one of them shifted and there's a new fault line no one has discovered, I really wouldn't worry at all about it as I sit on 8 Fault zones. I can't think of much an Earthquake can do really to all the suburbs of the Midwest. A little shake rattle in roll, maybe a few things will fall off your counter, shelves, desk etc..

 

[CodeRedR51]

Isn't this because of the gas mining that's been going on? I forget what it's called but it's only releasing pressure already built up in he plates anyway which is better than it saving up for one big quake.

They do a lot of natural gas drilling in western Colorado.

5.6 and 5.9 aren't fairly large, they are small. 7.0 is fairly large, 8.0 is huge...

For those specific regions, those are fairly large.

I hate starting earthquake threads because the Californians come in here big chested and tell us we don't know anything...

 

[Brett]

Isn't this because of the gas mining that's been going on? I forget what it's called but it's only releasing pressure already built up in he plates anyway which is better than it saving up for one big quake.

The gas mining you are likely thinking of is hydraulic fracking.

I hate starting earthquake threads because the Californians come in here big chested and tell us we don't know anything...

For Oklahoma, a 5.6 is an enormously large earthquake; the 5.6 was a record setting earthquake for the State of Oklahoma. California may have 5.6s on a semi-regular basis, but comparing a record setter in California to a record setter Oklahoma is an apples to oranges comparison; the regions dictate completely differing size earthquakes.

 

[Dennisch]

You have to look at it like this (that includes the Cali residents too) : The ground underneat California is like gravel, it absorbes quakes, and the rest of the US is like a solid slab of concrete, hit it with a bulldozer, and the whole slab slides.