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Boarder
12/20/2006, 10:36 PM
Breaking news on Channel 5.

skeery
Paperclip
12/20/2006, 10:39 PM
I live in MWC and parents in Del City. They called half a hour ago or so and asked if we felt anything. They said they heard a dull thud and the house shook. We didn't feel anything where I am in MWC.
Oldnslo
12/20/2006, 10:53 PM
LOCUSTS!
Boarder
12/20/2006, 11:06 PM
I was disappointed that the guy who they interviewed didn't say "I seen it!".
Paperclip
12/20/2006, 11:06 PM
Wasn't my dad then.
Boarder
12/20/2006, 11:08 PM
Maybe BSG pooted.
Okla-homey
12/20/2006, 11:14 PM
Were any trailers knocked off their blocks?;)
Paperclip
12/20/2006, 11:16 PM
So, my parents said they heard a boom before the house shook. What are they covering up with this "earthquake" bull?
Boarder
12/20/2006, 11:23 PM
The pro earthquake dude said that when the earth moves it pushes air making a boom. Perfectly normal.

Or, one of them al kweda fellers blowed something up.
Paperclip
12/20/2006, 11:24 PM
I forgot my winkie on the conspiracy theory post, but that sounds a little suspect. If they said a meth lab blew up I'd find that more credible.
Paperclip
12/20/2006, 11:26 PM
Were any trailers knocked off their blocks?;)

Trailer smack from a Tulsan? What's next, making fun of our Indian casinos?

:)
Boarder
12/20/2006, 11:27 PM
I forgot my winkie on the conspiracy theory post, but that sounds a little suspect. If they said a meth lab blew up I'd find that more credible.
Oh, I get it. You know something.
Paperclip
12/20/2006, 11:32 PM
Oh, I get it. You know something.

I've never been accused of that.
Tulsa_Fireman
12/21/2006, 12:11 AM
*walks out in his mumu*

It sounded jes' like ah freight train!

You know, Tinker is right there handy. Being from Titletown-I mean, Titantown, I've heard the stories of a time not too long ago where sonic booms were fairly common and houses did their share of shakin'. It's not supposed to happen anymore, buuuuuuut...

Could've the good ol' USAF pulled an incidental fast one?
Paperclip
12/21/2006, 12:13 AM
*walks out in his mumu*

It sounded jes' like ah freight train!

You know, Tinker is right there handy. Being from Titletown-I mean, Titantown, I've heard the stories of a time not too long ago where sonic booms were fairly common and houses did their share of shakin'. It's not supposed to happen anymore, buuuuuuut...

Could've the good ol' USAF pulled an incidental fast one?

That was my first thought actually.
SeattleOUstudent
12/21/2006, 12:13 AM
OKC>TULSA...again!:cool:
OUTromBoNado
12/21/2006, 12:42 AM
So, my parents said they heard a boom before the house shook. What are they covering up with this "earthquake" bull?

I remember this from about 3-4 years ago when I was at OU. We had something called an "earthquake family" around the Norman area over a 1-2 week span. I was woken up one morning but the boom...never felt the shakin' but I heard the boom. I thought it was the garbage truck dropping the dumpster, but I looked outside, and there was no truck.
OUTromBoNado
12/21/2006, 12:43 AM
OKC>TULSA...again!:cool:

Yeah, but if the New Madrid Fault in Missouri/Kentucky/Tennessee/Illinois ever goes, Tulsa is gonna be in a world of hurt....at least, so I read way back in the 90s when they thought the New Madrid was gonna go.
bri
12/21/2006, 02:07 AM
Plus, our faultline has a totally awesome Uncle Tupelo song written about it...so once again:

Tulsa>okc :D
Blue
12/21/2006, 02:26 AM
Do ya'll just make up **** to have something to talk about out there?
OUTromBoNado
12/21/2006, 04:29 AM
We don't make anything up. It's a simple fact.

Tulsa>OKC
RacerX
12/21/2006, 07:42 AM
Do ya'll just make up **** to have something to talk about out there?

You can see what being close to Stillwater has done to Tulsa.
BlondeSoonerGirl
12/21/2006, 10:12 AM
I felt it. But living so close to Tinker kinda makes you ignore that kind of stuff because I hear/feel stuff all the time. But this one did get my attention because it felt different. Kinda like that feeling you get in your stomach in the elevator.

Didn't hear anything, though. Just felt the house kinda shift.
yermom
12/21/2006, 10:23 AM
i'm glad nature seems to like Norman

MWC/Del City on the other hand...
fadada1
12/21/2006, 10:25 AM
we had one up here in PA last week - epicenter a little north of of where i am (southeast PA). something like a 3.5.
mrowl
12/21/2006, 10:32 AM
sounds like a sonic boom.
leavingthezoo
12/21/2006, 10:32 AM
it's not an earthquake until it tosses you clean outta bed when you're sound asleep, and knocks you down twice before you decide, "gee, I should just crawl" until you find a doorway. and if you ain't walkin' up hill both ways through live wires and collapsed buildings, it ain't nothin'. :dean:

rookies. :P
Boarder
12/21/2006, 10:42 AM
Kinda like that feeling you get in your stomach


see, I KNEW IT!
BlondeSoonerGirl
12/21/2006, 10:51 AM
:D
Dio
12/21/2006, 02:00 PM
I felt it in Moore. Felt like one of my kids slammed the door downstairs.
BigRedJed
12/22/2006, 08:25 AM
I didn't feel the one at 8:45 PM (the one they covered in the paper). But right after I went to bed at midnight, I felt and heard the 12:15 AM aftershock (I live in downtown OKC). For a second I thought someone had slammed my exterior door really, really hard, or that the nextdoor neighbor (I'm in a townhome) dropped something heavy up against the wall. My headboard moved slightly when it happened, like the wall behind it had bumped it hard. At the time I thought it could have been an earthquake, because it was similar to a tremor I felt in California years ago.

So when I'm reading the paper yesterday I see there was one at 8:45. Knowing the 12:15 quake would have been to late to make the paper, I went to the Oklahoma Geological Survey website, and sure enough, they also reported one around 12:15. Crazy.
Mongo
3/14/2007, 11:41 PM
I am working on a suspected well that is causing all of this hubbub.


Everything is fine here, just move along

Hey BSG, you need to pimp the greatness that is Dunkin' Donuts. Donuts are donuts, yet their coffee kicks starbuck's ***.
proud gonzo
3/14/2007, 11:57 PM
I thought I had felt an earthquake once in Wichita. Turns out it was a grain elevator exploding.
1stTimeCaller
3/15/2007, 12:11 AM
I am working on a suspected well that is causing all of this hubbub.


It figures that you're behind this
Mongo
3/15/2007, 12:28 AM
It figures that you're behind this

Earthquake is my middle name, and please leave out the fat jokes.
1stTimeCaller
3/15/2007, 12:31 AM
what about mudslide jokes?
Mongo
3/15/2007, 12:47 AM
what about mudslide jokes?

Being called fat is a lot like the dreaded "n" word. Us fat folks can call each other it, can use it as an adjective or any other frame of reference, but have a skinny person drop that word, you will have an angry, flurry mix of jowels and under arm flab shaking at your way.

So yes, mudslide jokes are permissable.