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Oklahoma: 26 Earthquakes Reported In 17 Hours

A series of small-medium earthquakes have rattled Oklahoma throughout Wednesday night, bringing a staggering 26 earthquakes to the region in just 17 hours.  A 4.7 magnitude tremor was followed just moments later by another 4.8 earthquake in an area 20 miles from Fairview, Oklahoma. Weather.com reports: The quakes struck at depths of 2.1 and 3.7 miles below the surface. The twin earthquakes occurred at 10:27 p.m. CST Wednesday night and were felt from central Kansas to southern Oklahoma and the eastern Texas panhandle, including in Wichita, Kansas, and the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. KWTV said some of its viewers reported damage in their homes. Seismogram near Paducah, KY nearly 500 miles away, shows the 4.8M #okquake. pic.twitter.com/X7HDoTi3Fm — James Aydelott ☈☂❄ (@jamesaydelott) January 7, 2016 There were no reported injuries in either Majors or Woods Counties, near the epicenter of the twin quakes, according to newsok.com. The 4.8-magnitude quake was the strongest in the Sooner State since the November 2011 swarm that included the state’s strongest on record, a 5.6-magnitude temblor in Prague on Nov. 6, 2011. It was the fourth strongest quake on record in Oklahoma, according to the Oklahoma Geological Survey (OGS). This was one of 26 separate earthquakes of [...]