Quake Wakes and Shakes
Tremors from Pawnee, Oklahoma earthquake sweep across the Midwest from Nebraska to Texas.
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Areas in and around Kansas City awoke with a shake Saturday Sept. 3 as tremors from the 5.8 magnitude earthquake were felt from areas across Nebraska all the way down to Texas. The earthquake initially struck 15 kilometers northwest of Pawnee, Oklahoma, over 300 miles away from Kansas City, at 7:02 a.m. according to the United States Geological Survey’s website.
Many residents living throughout the Kansas City area awoke with confusion as the tremors hit. These residents were a part of the estimated 10 million people who reportedly felt the earthquake across Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Texas, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Tennessee and Alabama, according to an article written on 41 KSHB’s website.
“I was just waking up and I actually thought that my husband was running in his sleep,” English teacher Casey Engel said. “And so I yelled, ‘Paul what are you doing, stop it.’ And then he woke up and went, ‘I think we are having an earthquake,’ and we were and all was well.”
Others, who were already awake, experienced the tremors as well and had similar confused reactions.
“I was just sitting in my car on Saturday morning getting ready for my cross country meet and then, bam, everything just started shaking and I was very confused,” senior Kameron Koppers said. “So I ran inside my house and told my mom that there was just an earthquake, but she didn’t agree and told me that it was just the laundry machine acting up. But then we looked it up and there was actually an earthquake.”
However, some did not get to experience this rare trembling and instead slept right through it.
“I woke up the next morning and I heard that there was an earthquake and I was really jealous of all the people that got to experience it because I’ve never experienced an earthquake before,” junior Mandy Mayer said.
This earthquake made history as Oklahoma’s largest recorded earthquake. The closest in size earthquake was the 5.7 magnitude Prague, Oklahoma earthquake that occurred Nov. 6 2011, according to the United States Geological Survey’s website.
No significant damage has been reported throughout the Kansas City metro and areas of Northwestern Missouri and Eastern Kansas where the earthquake was felt weakly, according to the National Weather Service of Kansas City’s website.
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