Oklahoma's 5.6

Last night just before 11pm we had a 5.6 earthquake with an epicenter in Sparks, just outside Prague, Oklahoma, only about sixty miles away. I had already been asleep and it woke me up. Mark was not fully asleep so he woke up, too. We sat in bed and could hear the rumble of the quake and saw everything sort of "roll" and shake in the house. It was really wild. It sounded like a long, solid rumble of thunder and lasted what seemed like a minute or so but reports state it was probably only 15-30 seconds at most. Nothing was knocked over or damaged at our house but reports on the news showed chimneys collapsing into homes, cracks throughout brick home walls, cabinets emptied, etc. in and around Prague.

On Saturday morning there was a 5.2 earthquake in Oklahoma but it happened around 2am so we slept through it. Reports of the 5.6 quake were felt down in Dallas and as far as Wisconsin.

Then, on Sunday evening just after the kids went to bed we had a 4.7 quake that seemed shorter than the previous night but seeing the computer monitor on our desk and lamps shake in a wave-like motion was pretty wild. Oddly enough, that night we had thunderstorms, too, and within 48 hours there were tornadoes to our west. We are no stranger to wild, ever-changing weather but to have so many natural phenomenon this year...even within a week...is pretty strange!