Quake CausesUPDATED 10:47 PM CDT Mar 26, 2014Video Transcript
THE BOTTOM OF EARTHQUAKES IN OKLAHOMA. SO WE WENT STRAIGHT TO THE LOCAL EXPERT... AND HE SAYS, RIGHT NOW, WE'RE SEEING AN UNPRECEDENTED NUMBER. KELLI REID - CLIP 9 9:53 "it's kinda like it comes in a wave, you can kinda hear it from a distance and then it just gradually comes" 9:58 DAN CARVER - CLIP 8 - 9:18 - "it's like you can feel something kinda shaking through your body" 9:20 KELLI REID - CLIP 9 10:28 "it kind just shakes you up and surprises you a little bit" 10:30 BY NOW, MOST OKLAHOMANS HAVE FELT AN EARTHQUAKE. THE SHAKING'S AN ALMOST DAILY OCCURANCE. WE'VE HAD SEVEN SO FAR THIS WEEK. :02 - :07 DAMON LANE: "welcome to the oklahoma weather / earthquake show..." WEDNESDAY, ON OUR ONLINE "OKLAHOMA WEATHER SHOW".. CHIEF METEOROLOGIST DAMON LANE INTERVIEWED "AUSTIN HOLLAND" WITH THE OKLAHOMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. HE'S A RESEARCH SEISMOLOGIST. 2:22 - 2:27 AUSTIN HOLLAND / OK GEOLOGICAL SURVERY: the largest earthquake to happen in Oklahoma was a Magnitude 7 - 13-hundred years ago" EARTHQUAKES ARE NOTHING NEW IN OKLAHOMA.. BUT ACCORDING TO HOLLAND... 4:12 - 4:20 "we've had a very dramatic increase - started in 2010 - and has sort of been continuing" SO WHAT'S CAUSING THIS SUDDEN SURGE IN SEISMIC ACTIVITY...? 8:08 "perhaps 10% of our earthquakes - caused by hydrollic fracturing" HOLLAND SAYS LAST YEAR, WE HAD A RECORD NUMBER OF EARTHQUAKES ... AND ALREADY THIS YEAR--- 4:34 - 4:38 "we're getting ready to crush last year's record number of earthquakes" HE SAYS THE POTENTIAL FOR ANOTHER VIOLENT EARTHQUAKE IN OKLAHOMA.. INCREASES WITH EVERY EARTHQUAKE. 40:45 - 40:55 "it is possible that we could have a large earthquake - but it's still unlikely we'd have a large damaging earthquake, but it is possible" HOLLAND SAYS THE LIKELIHOOD OF THAT HAPPENING.. IS BETTER THAN US HITTING THE LOTTERY BIG. HE SAYS IT WOULD TAKE ABOUT A FOUR-POINT-SEVEN MAGNITUDE QUAKE TO CAUSE SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE HERE.