Just about everywhere on Earth can have earthquakes. Some locations are more known for it than others, but it turns out that one of the largest earthquakes ever in the United States was in Missouri, a location not particularly noted for being earthquake-prone.
Anywhere there's a fault, there can be earthquakes. The recent (November 2011) Oklahoma quakes occurred along the Wilzetta fault.
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No. Earthquakes in California, Nevada, and Alaska are primarily the result of normal tectonic acitvity. Some earthquakes in Alaska and northern California are associated with volcanoes, but not supervolcanoes. Earthquakes in Colorado, Missouri, and Oklahoma are related to intraplate stresses and have nothing to do with volcanic activity. Some earthquakes in Oklahoma may be triggered by hydraulic fracturing used to extract oil and natural gas.
There were a pair of earthquakes in Oklahoma on the morning of November 5, 2011 at about 2:15 AM and 2:30 AM local time. The epicenter of both was about halfway between Oklahoma City and Tulsa. Or you could just go to the fabulous earthquake.usgs.gov site and look at their map, if you want to see where earthquakes have been pretty much anywhere on Earth within the last week.
Mountains are not required for an earthquake to occur. Recently, in flat areas such as Kansas and Oklahoma, earthquakes have been on the rise.
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Oklahoma has had more then 50 small earthquakes in 2010, most within 50 miles of Oklahoma City, OK.
Oklahoma is located entirely on the North American Plate well away from any plate boundaries. The earthquakes that have been striking Oklahoma are intraplate earthquakes associated with stresses and faults in the interior of the plate.
There are are a great number of very small earthquakes in Oklahoma. In the past 30 days, there have been 162 earthquakes in the northern Oklahoma/southern Kansas region with an average magnitude of about 2.9 and a maximum magnitude of 4.5. These may be related to hydraulic fracturing to extract oil and natural gas.
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The earthquakes in Oklahoma are what are known as intraplate earthquakes, as they occur in the interior of a plate, far from any plate boundary. The activity may be in part due to a weakness in the crust created by one of several failed rifts in what is now North America.
No. Earthquakes in California, Nevada, and Alaska are primarily the result of normal tectonic acitvity. Some earthquakes in Alaska and northern California are associated with volcanoes, but not supervolcanoes. Earthquakes in Colorado, Missouri, and Oklahoma are related to intraplate stresses and have nothing to do with volcanic activity. Some earthquakes in Oklahoma may be triggered by hydraulic fracturing used to extract oil and natural gas.
There were a pair of earthquakes in Oklahoma on the morning of November 5, 2011 at about 2:15 AM and 2:30 AM local time. The epicenter of both was about halfway between Oklahoma City and Tulsa. Or you could just go to the fabulous earthquake.usgs.gov site and look at their map, if you want to see where earthquakes have been pretty much anywhere on Earth within the last week.
No. Earthquakes in a region do not generally coincide with those in another region. Epicenters will deviate somewhat with aftershocks, but not that significantly.
Something called fracking is causing earthquakes. Fracking is a way to remove oil and natural gas from underground. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking (a drilling process that injects millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals under high pressure into a well, cracking the rock and to release natural gas and oil) is sometimes the cause of earthquakes.
At one time I would have said San Francisco, but with oil fracking now it would be Minnesota. Today Oklahoma has more earthquakes than California because of fracking.
Mountains are not required for an earthquake to occur. Recently, in flat areas such as Kansas and Oklahoma, earthquakes have been on the rise.
Because california lies on a major earthquake fault (the san andreas), while Texas is nowhere near a fault zone.