I wasn't sure if this should go in the News board or Random board, but News seemed a little more fitting. If I need to move it, just tell me and I will. Anyways, tonight (like, half an hour ago) and last night, we had earthquakes...in freakin' Oklahoma! Yesterday's was a 4.7 and today's felt even stronger! What the hell is going on? What could cause Earthquakes like that in the middle of the continent?

Felt the one tonight here in north TX. Pretty small here, no damage, but caught me (and apparently a majority of my FB friends) off guard. Not common stuff in this area.

Near the end of summer, there was a small earthquake along the east coast. Everyone was pretty much freaking out over it because stuff like that never happens in New Jersey where I live. And then Hurricane Irene came a few days afterward.

2012 is comin guys.
Thank god I never experienced an earthuake before ~.~

>>2 Yeah, plus we've had 3 (I think?) within a year. The one tonight was a 5.6! It's just so weird...I can't help but feel like something's not right, y'know. Really freaks me out.

Well, I just felt a very small aftershock. I hope that's the last of it...

Earthquakes are caused by a release of energy from the ground. We get them all the time in Cali do to the fault, Oklahoma may have caves and underground rivers. Earthquakes there are actually more common then you think.

yea i heard about the earth quake since my dads in oklahoma he felt the after shock

i felt it too. it was the first time i ever felt an earthquake

There was one in late August in the Virginia/DC area, and it was felt all the way in places like NYC. I heard about the one in Oklahoma the other day from a friend who lives there. It's pretty damn crazy if you ask me... Oh, I just glanced up and noticed that >>3 mentioned the same earthquake I just did. I'm too lazy to edit the repeated info out though. XD But yeah, it was insane, just before the hurricane too... My friend in Oklahoma was talking about the bad weather around the same time, too... >.< It's insane! In all these places which this stuff never happens... It's all happening. It's like... earthquakes all year. Japan wasn't enough, huh. (I'm sure we all know about that, it was all over the news, like, everywhere.) Mother Nature can be a real bitch sometimes... =P

Philippines Got 5.2 In mindanao too

People have been talking about fracking (natural gas drilling that involves striking into the earth and then branching out in other directions while underground) that's been going on and how it might cause earthquakes in this area of the country. I think it's a very possible reason.

I live in Surrey BC and I go to school in the main city Vancouver, we had an earthquake (that I didn't feel) while I was on the bridge going to school and then again when I was coming home from school. When I found out I was so freaked out, I didn't want to go to school the next day. I would have taken another route but the only way to get to the city is by taking that particular bridge. I usually tend to fall asleep on the bus cause the ride is so long but now I can't sleep anymore cause I'm so afraid it will happen again.

>>13 Yeah, it's really freaky, especially if you're not used to it. After thinking about it a bit it made more sense, though, which helped me to feel much calmer lol. There are pressures within the plates, just like those between them. And there's no way to know how long they've been building for. I mean, for all anyone knows, the pressure could have been building for a few hundred years and just happened to get released now. Also, it probably won't be released all at once, hence the repeated quakes. I hear they're still having small quakes down near where the source was. Yay for logic! Boo for it taking so long to kick in. >.<

We could feel all the oklahoma earthquakes in KC and now geologists are concerend that the New Madrid fault could move as a result of the recent earthquake activity.

OMG!! my aunt lives there! so is everything ok?? ...Did anyone die?

Hahaha, I felt that too. It was so weird. My house shook!

oh my god we just had one