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Photos. There have been more than 150 earthquakes in the past week in Oklahoma, according to the Oklahoma Geological Survey (OGS).Thatâs not normal. Before 2009, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported Oklahoma would typically get three or fewer 3.0+ magnitude quakes a year.n the last few years, the average jumped up to about 40 significant quakes a year. Less than 2 months into 2014, Oklahoma has had more than 25 quakes registering 3.0+ magnitude in Oklahoma. Michael Lewchuk, an earthquake expert with Casady School, told KOCO, âFor Oklahoma that is an unusually large amount.
With an estimated magnitude of 5.8., it, along with a quake on the New YorkâOntario border in 1944 and the 2016 earthquake near Pawnee, Oklahoma is tied as the largest to have occurred in the U.S., east of the Rocky Mountains, since an equivalent 1897 quake centered in Giles County in western Virginia.