Earthquake shakes parts of Kansas, Oklahoma

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Earthquake shakes parts of Kansas, Oklahoma
| November 12, 2014 | Updated: November 12, 2014 7:29pm

CONWAY SPRINGS, Kan. (AP) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8 shook parts of Kansas and Oklahoma on Wednesday, the largest since a series of temblors began rattling Kansas a little more than a year ago.

The quake's epicenter was near the town of Conway Springs, about 25 miles southwest of Wichita, according to the U.S. Geological Survey said. It came at 3:40 p.m., less than a day after a magnitude 2.6 earthquake was recorded near the southern Kansas town of Anthony.

Kansas Emergency Management spokeswoman Sharon Watson said the only reported damage was from an uprooted tree that cracked a home's foundation. No damage was reported in Oklahoma, said Keli Cain, a spokeswoman at the state's Department of Emergency Services.

Just 15 miles from the epicenter, farmer Scott Van Allen was taking a break with a friend while remodeling his garage in Clearwater when the walls and ground began shaking. It was the first earthquake he could recall feeling.

"It was a little spooky," Van Allen said.


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[Shrek]

1. I felt it

I was working in my basement and sensed the whole house wobble.

A little freaky -- tornadoes are a lot more common.

[Treant]

2. It's gay marriage in Kansas,

I'm telling you!

Yeah, God's pissed it took that frickin' long.

[MNBrewer]

9. Yes

We're sorry, not sorry.

[Odin2005]

3. How long before we start getting them up here because of the ND fields???

[ReRe]

4. Just Mother Nature...

... trying to shake some sense into a majority of their voters.

[davidpdx]

5. Oops, too late

[C Moon]

6. Fracking welcomes you to California.

[olddad56]

7. FRACKING. it doesn't take a genius to figure that out.

[allan01]

8. hem

according to the usgs world map , there has been a whole lot of quakes in the region.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/

i hope no larger harm thisway comes

[valerief]

13. Ha! It ends with, 'You'll thank god it's only a motion picture.' If only.

I hope someone in the film says, "Why didn't we look to the sun for energy instead?"

[tclambert]

14. Didn't they save the Earth with a bargeful of chewing gum?

"Dammit, General! We need more spackle!"

"Mr. President, the duct tape factories are running at full capacity, but we're running short."

"Mein Führer! I mean, Meester Prezident. I haff zee answer: Bungee cords. Iff vee collect all zee bungee cords from all zee bungee jumpers in zee entire vorld and strrretch zem across zee crack, vee can pull zee crack shut and restore zee balance of terror."

[AngryOldDem]

10. One more time: FRACKING.

The money for it is great. Trouble is, they don't tell you what else you're getting.

Why this is such a mystery, I don't know.

[tanyev]

11. That's just Mother Earth showing how happy she is to be fracked.

[heaven05]

12. fracking???

beginning to wonder if the people who said this would happen with fracking are right.

[tclambert]

15. The Earth tries to shake Governor Sam Brownback out of Kansas.

But the Koch brothers buy his way back in.

[Marrah_G]

16. The obvious answer is that God is pissed At Kansas and Oklahoma