UPDATED: 5.6 Quake Strongest in OK History
By: METEOROLOGIST Bryan Rupp
Updated: April 28, 2013
Initially the quake was measured as a 5.2 but has been upgraded to a 5.6 magnitude quake.
The quake has been reported to have been felt in:
- Texas
- Oklahoma
- Kansas
- Missouri
- Illinois
- Iowa
- Arkansas
- Nebraska
Click this link to go to the official report from the USGS:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/usb0006klz.php
Click this link to go to a close-up map of the quake zone area:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/us/b0006klz/us/index.html
Click this link for a wide view map of the quake zone, which stretches from Texas to Illinois:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/us/b0006klz/us/index.html
As of 7am Sunday, over 52,000 people have posted what they felt on the USGS site. Click this link to send an official report to the USGS on what you felt during the quake:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/us/b0006klz/us/form.en.disabled.html
KFDX has received numerous unconfirmed reports of minor damage throughout Wichita Falls and Texoma in the form of cracks in walls and floors. If you have damage please TAG texomashomepage on Facebook and also please email the photos to brupp@kfdx.com
NBC is reporting, through their affiliates in Oklahoma, that roads have buckled and walls collapsed near the epicenter. To read more on this click this link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45173167/ns/us_news-life/
CNN is reporting that one person has been injured in this quake. For more information from CNN click this link: http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/06/us/oklahoma-earthquake/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
Please post your comments on what you felt below by commenting on our story.
In addition, if you have damage please post that information below as well.
Reporters Editorial: Folks, I've been through a lot of quakes in my life and this one made me run outside. My apartment creaked and cracked. After I was awaken by it.
Meteorologist Bryan Rupp.
