Earthquake!

[Waltherfan]

Wasn't sure which section to start this in.
I felt it about 7:04. I was stopped at a red light at Cornhusker and 36th when my truck started shaking like it was in high winds. I looked around and the wind wasn't blowing. Then I wondered if my engine was coming off it's blocks  . Finally, I remembered a similar event from when I lived in SoCal: Earthquake  . From experiencing several of them in my time in Kalifornia, I knew it was a big one somewhere.
5.6 in Pawnee Ok.

Edited to add: I called the wife to see if she felt it, she didn't but had wondered why the hangers in the closet were rattling.

[m morton]

i wonder if this is a natural event or if it's from Fracking ?

[HuskerXDM]

I'm not up to date on the fracking theory of earthquakes, so I don't know.  I did read that geologists think the epicenter was about 4 miles deep in Oklahoma, which they also said is pretty shallow for earthquakes.

[Mali]

Slept right through it. I have heard several people talking about it this morning, however.

[GreyGeek]

Setting on the can when it and I started shaking!      Lasted about 15 seconds.  My 2nd floor apt made it seem worse.  East-west movements of about an inch.

The fault where it occurred in north central OK was 20,000 feet deep (5 Km).   It occurred where the Upper Crustal Rock meets the Paleozoic sedimentary rock at the tip of the Wichita Fault line. 

Contrary to politically correct opinion it was not caused by pumping used  brine back into the earth.

[Phantom]

Felt it here near Mid town this morning

[on the fritz]

Shortly after 7 am, I was woken up and felt my bed shaking.

Didn't know why or what was going on.  Thought maybe I was dreaming, even though I was "awake".

Saw the news scroll on the tv, but never put it together until about noon.  Probably after I really "woke up".    

I wonder if that's why channel 8 is off the air?  One of their signals is non-existent.  Won't get fixed until Tuesday, either.

[RobertH]

Felt in Lincoln. Thought my wife was shaking my chair, then saw the tv shake, shades move and hanging light move. My wife and daughters never noticed it.

[greg58]

I was on the computer in our den this morning, felt my office chair kind of gently rocking too and fro.
I thought maybe I was imagining something then I started hearing a clicking noise from my basement, and looked over and our bathroom door was moving back and forth a couple of inches.
Then about a minute later I felt another tremor much less powerful, and the bathroom door was just quivering a bit.
That is the first time I have ever experienced an earthquake.

Greg58

[depserv]

I was in Indiana when it happened.  I leave Nebraska for three days, and everything goes to hell. 

But we will rebuild.  What doesn't destroy us makes us stronger. 

I don't care what Mr. Geek says: it was either caused by fracking, global warming, or it was Bush's fault.

[NE Bull]

I was standing in the middle of a dozen 30 ton stamping presses, didn't notice a thing.  Office folks got all sort of excited though.