{"id":18491,"date":"2014-02-14T10:44:43","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T16:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=18491"},"modified":"2014-02-14T10:49:07","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T16:49:07","slug":"oklahomas-earthquake-swarm-in-one-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2014\/02\/14\/oklahomas-earthquake-swarm-in-one-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma&#8217;s Earthquake &#8216;Swarm&#8217; in One Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18492\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 620px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18492\" alt=\"Quake swarm\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2014\/02\/Earthquakes-Oklahoma-1990-2014-Chart-620x470.png\" width=\"620\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2014\/02\/Earthquakes-Oklahoma-1990-2014-Chart-620x470.png 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2014\/02\/Earthquakes-Oklahoma-1990-2014-Chart-500x379.png 500w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2014\/02\/Earthquakes-Oklahoma-1990-2014-Chart-150x114.png 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2014\/02\/Earthquakes-Oklahoma-1990-2014-Chart-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2014\/02\/Earthquakes-Oklahoma-1990-2014-Chart.png 708w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">EQ Charts<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Magnitude 2.0 and greater Oklahoma earthquakes from 1990-2014.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>EQ Charts has created <a href=\"http:\/\/eqcharts.com\/earthquakes-oklahoma-1990-2014\/\">a really great visual of Oklahoma&#8217;s earthquake &#8220;swarm.&#8221;<\/a> The chart was built with data from the U.S. Geological Survey, and shows quakes of 2.0-magnitude or greater.<\/p><p><!--more--><\/p><p>Most people can feel earthquakes that are 3.0-magnitude or greater. Earthquakes have increased exponentially in Oklahoma, a phenomenon federal and university seismologists have l<a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/topic\/earthquakes-2\/\">inked to disposal wells<\/a> used by the oil and gas industry.<\/p><p>The Sooner State has been seismically active historically, but Central Oklahoma&#8217;s 2009-2014 earthquake &#8220;swarm&#8221; is unusual because, as USGS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/newsroom\/article.asp?ID=3710&from=rss#.Uv5Dx_ZaTuQ\">seismologist Bill Leith writes<\/a>, the quakes don&#8217;t seem &#8220;to be due to typical, random fluctuations in natural seismicity rates.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EQ Charts has created a really great visual of Oklahoma&#8217;s earthquake &#8220;swarm.&#8221; The chart was built with data from the U.S. Geological Survey, and shows quakes of 2.0-magnitude or greater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490],"tags":[489,500,238],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18491"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18498,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18491\/revisions\/18498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}