Oklahoma Earthquake Hazard Map
An earthquake shook Oklahoma and surrounding states this morning at 9:06 a.m. according to reports. The epicenter of the earthquake struck about 6 miles east of Norman, Oklahoma. Two people were reported to have received minor injuries.
“We had a couple things fall off the wall here at the police department. We all ran outside to see if something hit the station or something like that,” Norman police Capt. Leonard Judy said. Only minor damage had been reported through the city, mainly porches cracking or items falling off shelves.
Both the National Weather Service and the U.S. Geological Survey confirm the 4.3-magnitude quake lasted for an estimated 15 seconds. “It came in loud and strong on all of our seismic stations,” Randy Keller, director of the Oklahoma Geological Survey, stated. A major fault line runs throughout the state and earthquakes occur often, but many of the tremors are too small to be noticed.
People in the Dallas-Fort Worth area also reported feeling aftershocks from the earthquake.
