Residents in Midwest City, Del City and parts of eastern Oklahoma City heard a large boom, followed by a brief ground tremor, said Jim Lawson, of the Oklahoma Geological Survey. The quake measured a 2.6 magnitude on the Richter scale initially.
No injuries or damage were reported, but calls poured in to Midwest City police dispatchers, Midwest City Police Chief Brandon Clabes said.
"The quake scared a lot of people,” Clabes said. "We had multiple calls about shaking homes. They thought it was some kind of explosion.”
The epicenter of the earthquake could not be precisely pinpointed because there is no major fault line in Oklahoma County, Lawson said. Tremors could have been felt up to 10 to 15 miles away, but the quake was "small.”
The boom that many residents in the area reported hearing was directly correlated to the quake, Lawson said.
Lawson asks that anyone who experienced the quake go to www.okgeosurvey1.gov and fill out a short survey.
