Tornado State Rattled by Earthquake

Normally when we talk about environmental hazards in Oklahoma, we are talking about tornadoes. Not the case this weekend. Saturday morning an earthquake hit Oklahoma that measured a 4.7 magnitude. Later that day the record for largest earthquake was beat in Oklahoma measuring at 5.6.

Oklahoma has bee hit with multiple earthquakes but the one on Saturday was abnormally large.  The picture shown is from Jeff J Mitchell/Getty, from the site http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/06/earthquakes-oklahoma-biggest-ever?newsfeed=true.

I found this to be a pretty interesting story because usually in Oklahoma you here about tornado disasters. This was also interesting because Oklahoma has been hit with multiple tornadoes, that can be felt within 100 miles of the epicenter, when the magnitude is in the 4s. This earthquake was felt, around 300 miles away, in Kansas City. There is a big different in the distance with only about one magnitude higher.