While I was in Kansas City last weekend, I got email from from Rob informing me that he and the kitties had felt two earthquakes around 2:30 Saturday morning. The first was magnitude 4.7 and the second one was about 3.4. The quake was centered near Prague, OK east of Shawnee and Oklahoma City.
Saturday night while in Kansas City laying on our hotel beds Tracy and I felt the hotel shake and quickly confirmed on Facebook that it was indeed an earthquake. This time it was a magnitude 5.6 centered near Prague and was felt as far away as St. Louis.
Rob and the kitties felt several more and then on Monday night we were sitting watching football and the house rattled and rolled for about 45-60 seconds. This time it was "only" a 4.7. In fact in the last 7 days there have been 38 earthquakes of magnitude greater than 1 from this area.
The M5.6 earthquake is the largest recorded in Oklahoma in modern history. The "shake map" is interesting to look at as it helps convert the magnitude at the epicenter to a rating for how it was felt away from the center. According to the USGS web site, earthquakes east of the Rocky Mountains can be felt nearly twice as far away as an earthquake of the same magnitude west of the Rockies.
I can tell you that the kitties were quite brave although for the "big one" on Saturday night Fuzz dove under the bed and then came back out. Our guess is that Fuzz came out because it was shaking under there too. For Monday's 4.6 quake it lasted longer and the kitties tolerated it for awhile but then Dakota had clearly had enough and she left. I don't know where she went but we didn't see her for about an hour.
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