Hope you are ok and that your home didn't have any damage. Satine

Is this a common thing?

No, it didn't used to be a common thing. I live in Tornado Alley, and knew it was, when I moved here in 72. But we also have violent thunderstorms, flood causing rains, high heat, very cold, and now, because of fracking we have earthquakes. Quite strong ones too. Tuesday, 4.3, this morning, 4.2 Our buildings are not built to Earthquake standards! This isn't what I signed up for, but I am not as near the epicenter so far. My daughter however is, and it is creeping her out. My bed shook for heavens sake... and it wasn't because of any fun action either!

but so far, no damage at my house. I will have to think about my pictures.. if I want them off the walls... and a couple of nice things on shelves??? Like I said, not what I signed up for...

Moni

Morz, where are you? I am right dab in the middle of Oklahoma, in OKC.

Earthquakes are really scary to me, living in a seismically-inactive area.

I like in a small city outside of Fort Worth that suddenly started getting many earthquakes in 2013. It went on for a couple of months with couple of days that were very active. They stopped just like they started, suddenly. I only felt one, a 3.6 and we were 3 miles from the epicenter. I was looking out my front window and it and the wall sort of bowed in and back out, there was noise, it scared the crap out of me.

A university (SMU) study determined that it was the fracking causing all of the earthquakes, but Texas Railroad Commission had previously declared that they were not caused by oil and gas activity. We are still allowing fracking. My understanding of the practice is that it is done by pumping a high-velocity stream of water into a fault in the shale and pumping it back out at the other end, fracturing the shale and releasing natural gas. Logic tells me that it could not be good for the earth to do that.

Dallas and Irving are having earthquakes again too again too. I'm pretty sure other areas where fracking doesn't take place are also having earthquakes.

A song is playing in my mind right now as I think about what we are doing to our planet, Pink Floyd's 'Take it back'.

15 minutes from dipping my toes in salt water on the Washington coast. My dad was born in Butler, OK, but I've never been there.

I talked to my best friend in Midwest city she is scared too and now has multiple cracks in the walls of her new home. Nothing in Oklahoma was built for earthquakes, tornadoes are a totally different animal. I was just amazed when I looked at that earthquake website that shows how many quakes are happening a day! Omg I am glad I am not there now. I went through one fairly strong quake when we lived in Memphis everything came flying out of the cabinets, I saw the wall in the bathroom doing the wave and I ran into the living room screaming earthquake! No one else knew what was happening we were all in shock. I don't want to experience that ever again!

I just can't believe they are still fracking! What will it take to stop the crazy a**holes. I guess people will have to die. Insanity.

Just take a look at the number of quakes are happening daily in Oklahoma! I just can't believe this insanity.

http://earthquaketrack.com/p/united-states/oklahoma/recent

move closer to Tulsa or anywhere to get away from that.

Another oil producing activity can cause small earthquakes and that is "water drives". It does similar things to the deep earth structure, but may not as severe as fracking. However, water drives continue over a long period of time. Waste liquid from producing wells is forced down a spent well or wells at the edge of an oil dome forcing flow through the strata toward the upper part of the oil dome. This drives the remaining oil toward the producing wells and gets rid of the crappy liquid left over from a producing well. The waste water is supposed to be put back into the oil bearing strata from whence it came, but I suspect there are instances where it goes elsewhere. Water from an oil well is filled with noxious crud and will ruin water wells if it escapes into the aquifer supplying these wells.

If it goes as usual we'll have another one in the morning. Moni have you seen these earthquake proof beds?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vgVboyyeHIw&feature=youtu.be

Money rules sanity, Raven. :) AAA, that would freak me out! But perhaps it is a good idea in very prone areas.

I live in OK as well. Have most all my life. I don't like the earthquake scenario one bit, but like the tornadoes, there's nothing I can do about them.

Now that they're happening in more populated areas, and more damage is showing up, the Corporation Commission is finally doing something about the fracking/waste well disposal process. Whether or not it's enough, only time will tell.

Oh no those vault beds would never work for me I am freaky about confined spaces. I would die of a heart attack if I was locked down in that tomb looking thing.

YIKES, AAA, not sure... my main gripe is: Quit that crap with the "disposal wells". Let the earthquakes go away.