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Witness location : Prague (USA) (9 km SW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 34 min

It scared the living daylights out of me. I was already awake before it happened and started screaming i thought i was in a dream there for a min then i was scared that the house was going to fall apart

Witness location : Prague (USA) (10 km S from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 20 min

Shook the house, woke everyone up

Witness location : Sparks (USA) (13 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 57 min

Wow, I woke up in the floor, it rolled me outta bed! Things have been knocked off my walls, cabinets,etc. it broke alot......I thought someone/ sonething hit my home. I've never felt something like that ...

Witness location : Shawnee (USA) (27 km SW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 60 min

Woke me up from a sound sleep.  It was an intense shaking that rattled the windows hard for about thirty seconds.  Then the house seemed to sway for about a minute longer.  I immediately looked outside to make sure it wasn't a tornado.

Witness location : Shawnee (USA) (39 km SW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 36 min

It felt as if the whole earth was rolling underneath me. Quite surreal and scary experience!  Ran outside and car alarms were going off and other people were running outside looking around as well. Not anything I want to experience again anytime soon.

Witness location : Tecumseh (USA) (43 km SW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 14 min

Sound asleep and woke us up!!!!

Witness location : Luther (USA) (47 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 20 min

The earthquake lasted about 5 to 10 sec

Witness location : Oklahoma City (USA) (49 km SW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 26 min

The trembling lasted for what seemed like several minutes

Witness location : Sapulpa (USA) (64 km NE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 21 min

Woke us up from sleep.  Entire house was shaking

Witness location : Oklahoma City (USA) (64 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 33 min

Woke me up

Witness location : Del City (USA) (72 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 21 min

Surging effect

Witness location : Edmond (USA) (73 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 570 min

At 0214 hrs on 11-05-11, I was awakened by a loud rumble. As soon as I opened my eyes, I felt a large wave going northbound, and saw the waves in my walls as it flexed them.

Witness location : Edmond (USA) (76 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 26 min

Earthquakes are one of the reasons I moved out of California!! Wasn't expecting to be woken up with one here.

Witness location : Bixby (USA) (77 km NE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 25 min

Woke me out of my sleep

Witness location : Moore (USA) (78 km SW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 14 min

it woke me up !

Witness location : The Village (USA) (79 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 30 min

Shook my coffee table and pipes. Knocked some stuff off shelves

Witness location : Sand Springs (USA) (81 km NE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 22 min

Seemed to last 30 seconds or longer.

Witness location : Oklahoma City (USA) (81 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 25 min

Pictures rattled, bed swayed.  It did not wake my husband. Seemed short and mild.

Witness location : (USA) (82 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 58 min

It startled my bird! And made him loose his balance.

Witness location : Oklahoma City (USA) (83 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 30 min

i live right next to the highway and not far from the airport. this was completely different. just a deeper broader series of little earth quivers. the items on my shelves were rattling and some pictures on my wall.

Witness location : Cleveland (USA) (83 km N from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 34 min

My husband and I were watching tv in bed, and everything started shaking, the windows, the bed, the floor. Being in oklahoma, we thought a tornado had started hitting the house, it was shocking to have felt that, never imagined feeling a quake so well in oklahoma, what an experience!

Witness location : Tulsa (USA) (87 km NE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 69 min

It felt like a truck had run into my apartment building! The rumbling lasted about 30-45 seconds. It was the first earthquake I had ever felt! Very exciting!

Witness location : Tulsa (USA) (88 km NE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 444 min

Was in bed upstairs asleep, rapid movement of bed up and down and rattling sounds. Sensation was like heavy weighted vehicle banging down a bumpy road. I immediately took note of time here 2:13am then 2:14am when it stopped and I then thought earthquake. Very unsettling feeling.

Witness location : Tulsa (USA) (88 km NE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 444 min

Was in bed upstairs asleep, rapid movement of bed up and down and rattling sounds. Sensation was like heavy weighted vehicle banging down a bumpy road. I immediately took note of time here 2:13am then 2:14am when it stopped and I then thought earthquake. Very unsettling feeling.

Witness location : Tulsa (USA) (89 km NE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 55 min

Everything was rattling around and my bed felt like I was on an ocean.  Very loud rattling.

Witness location : Tulsa (USA) (89 km NE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 36 min

Everything was rattling around and my bed felt like I was on an ocean.  Very loud rattling.

Witness location : Tulsa (USA) (89 km NE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 40 min

I was like what the heck is happening at 212 in the morning upstairs and it continued for a few moments and kept shaking me sure enough it was an earth quake

Witness location : Tulsa (USA) (89 km NE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 43 min

Lasted about 15 seconds

Witness location : Tulsa (USA) (90 km NE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 28 min

Things on my walls and shelves trembled enough to wake me from my sleep and it lasted maybe 5 min a little more intense toward the end

Witness location : Newcastle (USA) (91 km SW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 45 min

Whole house shook. Never felt that before. Actually woke me out of bed.

Witness location : Tulsa (USA) (93 km NE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 38 min

I was awakened by items in house shaking and rattling for about 6 seconds.

Witness location : Yukon (USA) (94 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 27 min

Woke me and my three kids up..we jumped out of bed and started running down the stairs. It lasted a few seconds. Felt like we were back in California again.

Witness location : Broken Arrow (USA) (95 km NE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 26 min

I was laying in bed almost asleep...and my bed started shaking

Witness location : Tulsa (USA) (95 km NE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 49 min

It shook my house for about a minute. I had time to run out the front door from my and then back inside twice before it settled down! I couldn't figure out what was going on. Earthquakes in Oklahoma?!

Witness location : Broken Arrow (USA) (96 km NE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 27 min

2:20am  woke me from a dead sleep a d last a out 15 seco ds.

Witness location : Broken Arrow (USA) (96 km NE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 22 min

Lasted about 30 seconds.  Not only could we feel it but we heard the rumble.  A really good shake for Oklahoma

Witness location : Tulsa (USA) (98 km NE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 49 min

Was trying to sleep wasn't sure what it was at first thought it was the A/C but then it calmed and got worse. That was the first time I was awake for one not fun.

Witness location : Yukon (USA) (99 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 173 min

The bedroom door rattled and the house trembled a bit. Got up to check on my kids and one of them had been awakened and was frightened, she said, "Daddy I thought someone was shaking my bed" I was sure then it was a quake......!

Witness location : Tulsa (USA) (100 km NE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 26 min

My parakeets were going crazy in their cage and I woke up when my bed started shaking. A couple pictures fell from the wall.

Witness location : Owasso (USA) (108 km NE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 43 min

Woke me up. Whole house shook for about 30 seconds. Glass on the wall fixtures rattled.  It sounded like a train.

Witness location : Skiatook (USA) (109 km NE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 27 min

Rolling effect. Seem to rattle on for awhile.

Witness location : Muskogee (USA) (125 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 23 min

Chandelier 1m from ceiling swung about 2-3 cm displacement.  Woke us upU

Witness location : Anadarko (USA) (153 km W from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 35 min

We was asleep and our doors was shaking

Witness location : Colcord (USA) (198 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 173 min

About 2:12 AM wol everybody up on the Oklahoma/Arkansas state line.

Witness location : Fort Smith (USA) (208 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 53 min

I was awake and I felt my bed moving.  Felt it in waves lasting 5-10 seconds at 2:14am.  If I had been moving around I don't know if I would have noticed it but it was unmistakable movement and I was alone in my room so I immediately thought it might be an earthquake.  Went to twitter and confirmed my suspicions.

Witness location : Buffalo (USA) (393 km NE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 1411 min

I have not felt once, since lived in A
Alaska, but knew exactly what it was!

Witness location : (USA) (1914 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 233 min

Was in bed and felt the bed shaking slightly at approximately 6:48am. I guess I was dreaming as when I woke, is stopped. Only lasted a few seconds.