News : Vinton residents feel Saturday morning earthquake centered in Oklahoma

It was not your imagination; if you felt like the earth moved shortly after 7 a.m. Saturday morning, it's because it did. Several Vinton residents reported feeling a tremor. The United States Geological Survey, the federal agency that monitors earthquakes, flooding, etc., reports that at 7:02 a.m. CST, a magnitude 5.6 earthquake of 4.5 KM (approximately 2.8 miles) in depth was centered 15 KM northwest of Pawnee, Oklahoma, and felt as far away as Arizona. Vinton native Heather Paulsen was about two hours away from Pawnee, in Ardmore, Okla. "My bed shook and blinds in the window were swinging,"� Paulsen reports. "We were camping at Rodgers Park, and felt it here,"� says Shannon Wheeler of Vinton. See the USGS report on this earthquake HERE. According to one web site, the USGS says that Vinton has a probability of just 18/100th of 1 percent chance of experiencing an earthquake of a magnitude of 5.0 or greater in the next 50 years. The USGS, however, says that both naturally-occurring earthquakes and those caused by mining and other human activities are likely in many locations east of the Rocky Mountains.