"EARTHQUAKE WEEKEND"
Still having problems posting my blog from my home computer. Need to see what is going on. I now know I can come to the library to post it. Just do all the typing at home.
There are two subjects I want to blog about. The first being a follow up on my mammo and ultra sound. They found a cyst on my right side. My family doctor referred me to a surgeon to see about getting a biopsy done. It is the same doctor that did my mom's back in 1999, Dr. Tim Bower. Just to see him to look at my records and give me his recommendations will cost me $95.00. I was then told biopsies are expensive. So with no insurance, I will have to work with the hospital to pay it out. Not so sure I want to have one done. I am sure I need to, since my mom had breast cancer, to make sure it isn't cancerous. From there we will see. I covet your prayers. I am praying it isn't cancer and they can just remove the cyst. If it is cancerous, I pray they can get all of it when they do the biospy and that be the end of it. I am not so sure I want to take treatments. I am pretty sure I don't want a masectomy. What I really pray for is God's will be done and he show me the direction I should go.
The Bible says in the last days there will be earthquakes in many places. Usually you don't hear of earthquakes in Oklahoma, although I was just reading about earthquakes in Oklahoma and it is documented that Oklahoma has about 50 earthquakes a year, but many are too small in magnitude to be felt. The state does have faults that are buried deep, like the Wizetta Fault, also known as the Seminole Uplift, east of Oklahoma City, where pressure can build. There is also Meeker's Fault in northwestern Oklahoma around Caddo.
Since mid-2009, the state has had 10 times more earthquakes than normal. In 2010, the earth beneath Oklahomans’ feet moved more than 1,000 times, but only 100 or so were strong enough to be felt. Oklahoma does not rest atop the fractious areas where two tectonic plates rub against each other. But the state’s geophysical activity has only been surveyed in earnest for about 50 years, making it difficult to draw conclusions or put the recent activity into context.
Pressure is released as tremors like those that startled residents over the weekend in Prague, Okla., where the visible damage on Sunday morning included chimneys that had collapsed onto houses. In a house on North Road, a china cabinet was emptied of its contents, which were smashed. Parts of Highway 62 between Prague and Meeker buckled. In Lincoln County, cracks ran up the brick courthouse in Chandler after a smaller quake early Saturday morning. Since the Saturday night quake, there have been over 20 after shocks that measured above 2.5 on the Richter scale.
At least 8 earthquakes were felt during a 24 hour period, kicking off Saturday morning November 5, 2011. It's epicenter was near Prague, about 50 miles east of Oklahoma City and measured 4.7 in magnitude. That quake happened about 2:12 a.m. From an article in the New York Times Saturday and Sunday November 5 & 6 the Earth moved at least 23 times and had nothing to do with football. The quakes by Midwestern standards, shook towns about an hours drive northeast of Oklahoma City. They began early Saturday and continued intermittenly through the weekend. The biggest Saturday night's quake was shallow, about three miles deep, and the epicenter was four miles east of Sparks, Oklahoma. Sparks is about 44 miles northeast of Oklahoma City. It occured at 10:53 p.m. and was 5.6 in magnitude. It could be felt throughout the state and in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, northern Texas and some parts of Illinois and Wisconsin.
Oklahoma has had big earthquakes before. USGS records show a 5.5 magnitude earthquake struck El Reno, just west of Oklahoma City, in 1952 and, before Oklahoma became a state in 1907, a quake of similar magnitude 5.5 struck in northeastern Indian Territory in 1882. My mom said when my brother and I were quiet young she felt and heard an earthquake at our home in Claremore, Oklahoma. The first one I ever felt was back in October of 2010. My youngest daughter and I heard a rumbling like thunder and then our house shook. We didn't know what it was until hearing about it later. We definitely felt the 5.6 one Saturday night. Our house shook for about a minute. My daughter heard it first. We didn't feel the first one at 2:12 a.m. but several at church felt it. Tonight just a few seconds ago, we heard a rumbling and couldn't decide whether it was an after shock or thunder. Must have been thunder because it is now raining outside. During the thunder storms we felt another quake. It coming from the same area as the first two. It was a 4.7 in magnitude.
This has Oklahoman's wondering if there will be more and how soon. There's no way to predict when the next one will be. Many are beginning to wonder what will be next. We have had a record blizzard, record tornado and now record earthquakes. As I said in the beginning, just a sign of the end times. It could be very soon. That is why we should be ready at any moment. It is an experience I won't forget very soon.
I hope you found something of interest in this posting. Take care all.
God Bless!
Starlight*
There are two subjects I want to blog about. The first being a follow up on my mammo and ultra sound. They found a cyst on my right side. My family doctor referred me to a surgeon to see about getting a biopsy done. It is the same doctor that did my mom's back in 1999, Dr. Tim Bower. Just to see him to look at my records and give me his recommendations will cost me $95.00. I was then told biopsies are expensive. So with no insurance, I will have to work with the hospital to pay it out. Not so sure I want to have one done. I am sure I need to, since my mom had breast cancer, to make sure it isn't cancerous. From there we will see. I covet your prayers. I am praying it isn't cancer and they can just remove the cyst. If it is cancerous, I pray they can get all of it when they do the biospy and that be the end of it. I am not so sure I want to take treatments. I am pretty sure I don't want a masectomy. What I really pray for is God's will be done and he show me the direction I should go.
The Bible says in the last days there will be earthquakes in many places. Usually you don't hear of earthquakes in Oklahoma, although I was just reading about earthquakes in Oklahoma and it is documented that Oklahoma has about 50 earthquakes a year, but many are too small in magnitude to be felt. The state does have faults that are buried deep, like the Wizetta Fault, also known as the Seminole Uplift, east of Oklahoma City, where pressure can build. There is also Meeker's Fault in northwestern Oklahoma around Caddo.
Since mid-2009, the state has had 10 times more earthquakes than normal. In 2010, the earth beneath Oklahomans’ feet moved more than 1,000 times, but only 100 or so were strong enough to be felt. Oklahoma does not rest atop the fractious areas where two tectonic plates rub against each other. But the state’s geophysical activity has only been surveyed in earnest for about 50 years, making it difficult to draw conclusions or put the recent activity into context.
Pressure is released as tremors like those that startled residents over the weekend in Prague, Okla., where the visible damage on Sunday morning included chimneys that had collapsed onto houses. In a house on North Road, a china cabinet was emptied of its contents, which were smashed. Parts of Highway 62 between Prague and Meeker buckled. In Lincoln County, cracks ran up the brick courthouse in Chandler after a smaller quake early Saturday morning. Since the Saturday night quake, there have been over 20 after shocks that measured above 2.5 on the Richter scale.
At least 8 earthquakes were felt during a 24 hour period, kicking off Saturday morning November 5, 2011. It's epicenter was near Prague, about 50 miles east of Oklahoma City and measured 4.7 in magnitude. That quake happened about 2:12 a.m. From an article in the New York Times Saturday and Sunday November 5 & 6 the Earth moved at least 23 times and had nothing to do with football. The quakes by Midwestern standards, shook towns about an hours drive northeast of Oklahoma City. They began early Saturday and continued intermittenly through the weekend. The biggest Saturday night's quake was shallow, about three miles deep, and the epicenter was four miles east of Sparks, Oklahoma. Sparks is about 44 miles northeast of Oklahoma City. It occured at 10:53 p.m. and was 5.6 in magnitude. It could be felt throughout the state and in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, northern Texas and some parts of Illinois and Wisconsin.
Oklahoma has had big earthquakes before. USGS records show a 5.5 magnitude earthquake struck El Reno, just west of Oklahoma City, in 1952 and, before Oklahoma became a state in 1907, a quake of similar magnitude 5.5 struck in northeastern Indian Territory in 1882. My mom said when my brother and I were quiet young she felt and heard an earthquake at our home in Claremore, Oklahoma. The first one I ever felt was back in October of 2010. My youngest daughter and I heard a rumbling like thunder and then our house shook. We didn't know what it was until hearing about it later. We definitely felt the 5.6 one Saturday night. Our house shook for about a minute. My daughter heard it first. We didn't feel the first one at 2:12 a.m. but several at church felt it. Tonight just a few seconds ago, we heard a rumbling and couldn't decide whether it was an after shock or thunder. Must have been thunder because it is now raining outside. During the thunder storms we felt another quake. It coming from the same area as the first two. It was a 4.7 in magnitude.
This has Oklahoman's wondering if there will be more and how soon. There's no way to predict when the next one will be. Many are beginning to wonder what will be next. We have had a record blizzard, record tornado and now record earthquakes. As I said in the beginning, just a sign of the end times. It could be very soon. That is why we should be ready at any moment. It is an experience I won't forget very soon.
I hope you found something of interest in this posting. Take care all.
God Bless!
Starlight*
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