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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  :o. 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!   :o   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.

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