North Texas rattled by nine earthquakes in nine hours

Jen Hayden

Daily Kos Staff

Wednesday January 07, 2015 · 7:14 AM PST

2015/01/07 · 07:14

no image description available — A series of earthquakes rattled the Irving, Texas area

NBC DFW graphic showing locations of earthquakes on January 6, 2015

A series of earthquakes rattled the Irving, Texas area

Northern Texas had nine earthquakes in a nine hour period yesterday, ranging from 2.3-3.6-magnitude.

They weren't exactly insignificant:

The USGS listed the strongest of the quakes as MMI V on the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale, which indicates they had the strength to be felt by nearly everyone, wake those sleeping, break windows and dishes and to overturn unstable objects.
Tuesday's earthquakes were centered in an area where more than 20 quakes have been recorded since October 2014.

Resident reactions:

“All of a sudden you hear a 'boom.' That's why we thought somebody hit the building. And then everything started shaking,” said Melissa Lockard, who works in Irving.

“We said, ‘Oh, my God, this is another one,” said Dania Medina, who works at the Days Inn off Texas 183 in Irving. “And we didn't believe it.”

Scientists are monitoring the area:

“This is the largest earthquake in Irving since the ’70s. That’s as far back as our catalog goes,” said USGS geophysicist Jessica Turner. “There hasn’t been anything like this at all, so it’s new.”

S.C. Jackson of Irving, Texas, captured one of the earthquakes on his security camera:

The times and magnitudes of each earthquake:

7:37 a.m. 2.3 magnitude
3:10 p.m. 3.5 magnitude
6:52 p.m. 3.6 magnitude
8:11 p.m. 2.9 magnitude
8:12 p.m. 2.7 magnitude
9:54 p.m. 1.7 magnitude
10:05 p.m. 2.4 magnitude
11:02 p.m. 1.6 magnitude
12:59 a.m. 3.1 magnitude

North Texas rattled by nine earthquakes in nine hours

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