OKLAHOMA FAULT LINES

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Nope... not even close.

The Ring of Fire is on the West Coast... well, part of it is, anyway.

Last Edited by The One Free Man on 07/09/2009 10:07 PM

Then you better get your Oklahoman ass up here to Canada. We can go fishing and drink some beer. Then, you can try some canadian back bacon.

It is true.
New Madrid fault line.
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Oklahoma where the wind goes rushing thru the plains....

dude the wind sweeps

it does not rush.

it sweeps.

okay?

prison state

thats what my mother always told me, I grew up just outside of tulsa.

and it runs right next to our major gas pipe.

when it hits, we are all going to be toasty oakies.

nah, we aint got nothing to worry about.

Yes, Oklahoma has a fault line called the Meers Fault near Lawton. It is unique because it is the only fault that runs East to West East of the Rockies.

I like Lawton.

Yes you are on a huge fault line, better have some doom sex.

OK Lol

No, Oklahoma is far from the Ring of Fire, which encircles the Pacific Ocean as you see here:

[link to www.worldatlas.com]

I don't know about a fault line but there has been a lot of eq activity the past few months:

[link to folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu]

Correct on other posts here - Meers, New Madrid. USGS theorizes that at some time in the future, the Central States (OK, IL, MI, etc) could be the scene of an earthquake worse than that imagined for the West Coast.

In the early 1800's experts (USGS, University seismologists, etc) speculated that the earthquake that hit that area (Missouri, if I remember correctly) might have been in the vicinity of a 9.0 on today's current Richter. Most accounts from people at the time, likened that earthquake to the end of the world because of stories of structures being completely leveled, even folks not being able to stand up, massive dust clouds darkening the skies, etc. The wide-spread panic and fear also had to do with lack of communications at the time, causing locals to be cut off from the outside world until days after the quake.

To recap, at least two major faults in the OK, Midwestern States (Meers, New Madrid, and poss others yet to be discovered).

You're right in that we are not on the New Madrid. However, activity from the New Madrid easily transfers to Oklahoma in the Meers fault because of the unique structure of the Meers. Running east to west, when the New Madrid breaks loose, the North-South jarring releaves tension on the fault, allowing the fault to shift more easily. The correlation between the strength of the earthquakes along the two fault lines are strong. We've had two quakes above 4.0 so far this year. Funny thing - that fault is only about 15 miles long.

Just had a quake hit today 4.5 felt from Tulsa to OKC and surrounding areas.

ok is on the ring of tards

They have actually changed it. It was a 5.1 and people in kansas and texas reported feeling it.

---no dude, wind RUSHES and COLD FRONTS sweep!

OMG, accidently landed on this searching info on the fault lines, I live in Lawton near Meers and felt it pretty good.
Ended up LMSO Thanks

The ring of fire is around the edges of the pacific ocean. So, no, Arklabma is not included.

no and no; NMZS is a minor seizmic fault line outside the ring of fire ...

LMAO, funny everyone is talking fault lines and natural events ! I mean I have lived in Ok. For about 20 years and never has there been quakes like this, but I lived in Texas years ago and shortly after frak drilling started , quakes, bad water wells, and sink holes were close to follow! If you haven't heard, the epicenter started at sparks Prague, and meeker areas! Any questions about how much oil field frak work is going on there?

The guy above me is thinking exactly what I'm thinking. These fault lines don't connect to any major fault line and yet the quakes are getting worse. The oil drilling is definitely fucking things up! Probably best if they stop drilling now while they're ahead. What did they think would happen when they sucked out every last drop? That the huge underground basin would be fine? Wrong! Gravity always is working against us and all of that land above those soon to be empty basins is soon going to be a hell of a lot lower. This will be a lesson to Show many that we should have gone to cleaner energy when we had the chance. Goodluck!

WM ... you have never heard the song or watched the musical entitled "Oklahoma," have you? Not a Rodgers and Hammerstein fan ... hmmmmm? Perhaps a little too much sophistication for you WM? It is official ... the wind sweeps .........

I agree with the two guys above me. It is amazing what a little research will do.

It's a rush when it's a tornado!!!!