I’ve felt four tremors here and all of the quakes were around the same area in Oklahoma. The first one was several years ago and it was a mild vibration. I thought one of my daughters cats was pawing the back of my recliner and then I noticed they were in front of me with the ‘what the heck was that’ look on their faces. My daughter was on the internet and said one of her friends said there was a quake down there.
One morning just before I got out of bed it felt like someone grabbed the end of my bed and shook it as hard as the could. I felt another slight tremble a year or so after that and if I had been walking I wouldn’t have noticed it.
This one was the longest rumble I’ve felt and it’s been long enough it surprised me at first. My oldest daughter lives in Pittsburg, Ks about 20 miles further east of me and she said it shook the entire house.
The authorities say the cause is the fracking method used for oil wells there in Oklahoma. Lots of oil production in that area.
The Osage Indians were placed on a reservation around Pawhuska, Ok and when oil was discovered on their land they became very rich. There’s a book and a movie about the murders committed there. The book is a good read about the evil done there. The movie is very long and hard to keep up with unless you have read the book. Killers of the Flower Moon is the book if you are interested in a chapter of the native American history.
