Tag: earthquake
NEW DELHI — A year after a deadly avalanche on Mount Everest ended the climbing season, another avalanche, this one caused by a powerful earthquake near the Nepalese capital, rumbled down a treacherous icefall on Saturday and slammed into part of the mountaineering base camp, killing at least 10 climbers
We’ve had several earthquakes this weekend. A M4.3 struck north of Crescent early this morning, felt as far away as Tulsa. There’s no immediate word of damage. 3.2 16km N of Crescent, Oklahoma 2014-03-30 07:49:42 UTC-05:005.3 km 2.7 17km E of Hennessey, Oklahoma 2014-03-30 04:51:43 UTC-05:005.0 km 2.8 15km NNW
Mother Nature has been busy today. Yes, we got a couple of inches of much needed rainfall in Oklahoma. We could see a little more this evening, but if that does happen, I doubt it’ll measure anything significant. Dozens of earthquakes have rattled southern California. I do mean dozens. There’s
I can’t really consider our weather pattern the past week totally boring. Last Monday was pretty exciting. 6 tornado touchdowns were reported in Oklahoma on November 7th. The first one, a confirmed EF4, would be the first tornado of that strength to strike Oklahoma during the month of November. Unfortunately I
At 10:53 PM tonight a 5.6 magnitude earthquake shook Oklahoma and was felt in surrounding states. The epicenter was 4 miles E of Sparks, OK. Reports of feeling the quake came in from Quincy, IL and Lawrence, KS. Tonight’s earthquake was the most powerful one in Oklahoma history. In 1952 a 5.5 magnitude
If you were awake or rocked out of your bed around 2 AM this morning, you may have felt it: a 4.7 magnitude earthquake struck central Oklahoma. Centered 6 miles north of Prague, the quake was felt from Tulsa to Oklahoma City. Since the initial rumble, several smaller aftershocks have
I was sitting in my office near the airport in Tulsa. My chair began to shake. I turned around, thinking someone was jerking on the back of my desk chair, but nobody was there. It was an earthquake. Centered near Norman Oklahoma, the quake was felt nearly 1,000 miles away in Tennessee.