Staffers at the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant in southeast Kansas found no damage to the plant after an quake rattled a large swath of the Midwest.
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It’s unclear when Wolf Creek will return to operation.
There are reports of homes being destroyed in Pawnee, Oklahoma.
Omaha resident Sean Weide told the Associated Press he’d never been in an quake before and thought he was getting dizzy. “It just started shaking”, said Wills, who lives about 2½ miles outside of town.
Wills said buildings in the downtown area are cracked and sandstone facing on some buildings fell and described the scene as “a mess”. Such a quake, though, is strong enough to be felt by everyone.
Fortunately, there has been no major damage immediately reported.
“There are a couple buildings with light to medium damage in the City of Pawnee”, Waters said, adding that the jail has some structural concrete damage, but it has not been evacuated.
A preliminary 5.6 magnitude quake struck just after 7:00am Saturday near Pawnee, Oklahoma, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The USGS also noted aftershocks may occur.
According to The Associated Press, the United States Geological Survey said the natural disaster was one of the largest in Oklahoma history and it was the same size as a similar temblor measured in the area in 2011. “The fire department and electricians and police are going through the area”, Pawnee Chamber of Commerce manager Tom Briggs told the network Saturday morning. Other reports coming from as far away as South Bend, Indiana.
Social media posts said the temblor was felt in Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska. In April 2013, The United States Geological Survey released a new study estimating the Bakken formation and surrounding oil fields could yield up to 7.4 billion barrels of oil, doubling their estimate of 2008, which was stated at 3.65 billion barrels of oil.
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People in Kansas City, Fayetteville, Ark., and Norman, Okla., all reported feeling the.
