OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) A 5.6 magnitude earthquake struck in Oklahoma late with Saturday evening, the actual U.S. Geological Survey said, toppling some sort of chimney, damaging complexes in addition to giving a boulder the type and model of your SUV on to a outlying road.
The tremble appeared to be the most robust within Oklahoma history, leading a new tremor associated with 5.5 specifications inside 1952, reported by your USGS.
It was this following quake noted inside point out in just twenty four hours after a tremor associated with 4.7 magnitude quickly Saturday. Both quakes were being focused east connected with Oklahoma City throughout Lincoln County .
There were absolutely no reviews with serious accidents or perhaps deaths.
J.L. Gilbert, operator of the Sparks Vineyard and also Winery, regarding four a long way on the epicenter on the quake, mentioned that survived "a excellent 30 seconds."
"It appeared to be a quite very good jolt. We're not necessarily helpful to this. We're used to getting sucked up into your wind," he said, mentioning Oklahoma's reputation being a tornado alley.
One with Gilbert's employees went to this hospital after tripping and also hammering his or her brain using a threshold though scrambling to acquire away from his home, Gilbert said.
In Prague, Oklahoma, where the earlier quake seemed to be centered, City Manager Jim Greff said the actual latest tremblor prompted a chimney to topple more than along with freeze over the roof on the home.
Part involving the particular roof grid inside Prague library collapsed through quake, though the partitions remained intact, Greff said.
The earthquake caused assert Highway 62 to buckle inside three places west of Prague and also directed your boulder "about the type of an SUV" tumbling on to some sort of rural highway within southeast Lincoln County , reported Aaron Bennett, dispatch examiner for that county's emergency operations division.
Four aftershocks with the initial tremble were being believed simply by one particular a.m. Sunday, Bennett said.
The quake appeared to be felt additional than 3 hundred miles aside within Kansas City, wherever it rattled windows in addition to shook stores regarding 50 percent your minute, a Reuters witness said.
The second tremble appeared to be your trifling 3.1 mile after mile (5 km ) strong plus appeared to be focused some miles distance connected with Sparks, which can be east regarding Oklahoma City.
Earthquakes on the 4.0 magnitude east on the Rocky Mountains can easily ordinarily become felt from upwards in order to 60 mile after mile away, relating on the USGS. A 5.5 degree quake is usually sensed about more than 200 kilometer after kilometer out of it has the epicenter.
(Editing by Greg McCune and Vicki Allen)
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