HUGE House-Shaking Earthquake just hit me in BA

[OKC03Cobra]

Ya'll can blame me for this one. We drilled a few wells just a couple of miles from the epicenter. Also had one in Kansas last year that we drilled practically on top of the epicenter.

We will be drilling in Kansas in a couple of weeks. So standby.

 

[retrieverman]

I'm a mile north of the Byron fish hatchery in Alfalfa co, and the house seemed to shake for almost a minute. That's nuts!

 

[DeerAssassin]

We will be drilling in Kansas in a couple of weeks. So standby.

Ya need a floorhand? lol

 

[donner]

We will be drilling in Kansas in a couple of weeks. So standby.

Per the Tulsa World

http://www.tulsaworld.com/earthquak...cle_2ba346d8-0045-5741-9314-36e042f6aaa5.html

UPDATE: The Oklahoma Corporation Commission has ordered the shutdown of oil and gas disposal wells within a 500 square mile area where a 5.6 magnitude earthquake was centered early Saturday in Oklahoma.

In a brief statement, the commission's spokesman indicated that it would be contacting disposal well operators to stop operations. The order will affect approximately 35 wells.

Disposal wells inject waste water — a byproduct of oil and gas drilling — deep into the ground. Scientists believe that the high volume of waste water injected into the ground has triggered Oklahoma's substantial increase in earthquakes in recent years.

According to a Tulsa World analysis in January, the volume of waste water disposed climbed 81 percent across six years, coinciding with the state’s increase in earthquakes.

 

[Wheel Gun]

I'm just not buying the theory that injection wells caused an earthquake of this magnitude. I do, however, believe that injection wells have been the cause of the little frequent shakers that we've been experiencing for the last year or so. Those have been shallow, short-duration quakes that felt different from this big guy. (Also, they immediately subsided when injection levels were curtailed.) This was a regional seismic event and I just cannot imagine how human activities could have triggered something like that. But then, what do I know?

 

[davek]

Did anyone sleep though it and miss it?

 

[DRC458]

I was lying in bed awake. By far the strongest, longest-lasting one I've ever felt and I've felt several. I don't know how you could have slept through it here in Enid! Well, OK, I remember some kids who could have slept through it when they were young.

 

[adamsredlines]

First one I've ever felt...I thought it was a strong wind gust at first then realized what was going on. Pretty eerie feeling.

 

[rickm]

I was in bed asleep when i felt it thought wife had came in and shock the bed to try to wake me since i was oversleeping my normal wakeup time but no one as around my bed so i went back to sleep and didnt know anything till later in the day.

 

[Grendel]

Did anyone sleep though it and miss it?

We were asleep IN bed and it woke us up in southern Mayes county. I thought it was a big truck driving by at first, but much more powerful and longer lasting. Daughter was kind of scared.

Even my mother-in-law who can sleep through an F5 tornado woke up.