ALFALFA COUNTY, Okla. — It was the largest earthquake in Oklahoma in more than four years, striking near Cherokee, in the far northwest part of the state around 1:45 am.
The quake was felt as far north as Kansas, as far east as Arkansas, and as far south as Texas.
Residents in and around Cherokee say the quake has definitely them shaken up.
“I felt the whole house just start shaking, and stuff started falling over on my tables. I had a lamp fall off. I had some deer racks fall off my wall. And it was pretty bad. It lasted a long time,” said Todd Cunningham.
Tina Nelson said it woke her from a deep sleep.
“The whole bed, the whole house was just it was shaking, like, like we were just having a tornado out the front door,” said Nelson.
“It was loud this time. Everything in my house was shaking. I heard a lot of things falling off and breaking. And it just lasted for a really long time compared to what they have been before,” said Kryslyn Packard.
Packard’s mom owns Cole’s Flowers in Cherokee.
Packard works there and said her mom walked into a mess this morning when she found that the earthquake had busted the overhead water pipes in their greenhouse.
“The pipes busted in the greenhouse and we had flooding, pretty severe this time,” said Packard.
Packard says this is actually the third time an earthquake has broken those lines, but this is definitely the worst.
“There was a lot more damage this time than there has been before,” said Packard.
Surveillance video at the local grocery and convenience stores showed items falling off of shelves.
Many residents are growing increasingly concerned about the quakes, especially after this morning’s big one.
Late Thursday afternoon, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission announced two disposal wells near the earthquake activity will stop operations and 23 others will be required to reduce their volume.
