North Texas gets a late-night Saturday rumble as 3.4-magnitude earthquake is recorded near Irving

Where the USGS coordinates put tonight's quake, more or less

No doubt you just felt the shakes and rattles moments ago, especially if you?re near Irving, where, a little after 11, a 3.4-magnitute earthquake was recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey. (The coordinates put it more or less at the intersection of N. MacArthur Boulevard and W. Rochelle Road.) The U.S.G.S. puts it near Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, but it could felt all over ? from our neck of the Great Northwest, near Marsh and Walnut Hill, all the way up to The Colony, according to one reader, and into East Dallas, according to Twitter. That?s where a certain former Texas Ranger also weighs in: ?Awesome just felt an earthquake in Southlake, Tx. Real quick one,? writes C.J. Wilson, who may also be an amateur seismologist.

The USGA puts it here, to be precise:

3km (2mi) N of Irving, Texas
10km (6mi) SSW of Farmers Branch, Texas
11km (7mi) NNE of Grand Prairie, Texas
11km (7mi) E of Euless, Texas
295km (183mi) S of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

And it was about three miles deep.

Reader Matt Blackman sends word via email: ?I live at MacArthur and Hidden Ridge, which is about a mile from epicenter. It shook real good and opened my metal filing cabinet drawers. A few minutes later we had an aftershock. I first thought a plane crashed because they fly right by here on the east-west runway. Never felt an earthquake before.?

Update from staff reports:

D/FW spokesman David Magana said the quake was felt at the airport but that there were no reports of problems. Nor had any major incidents been reported in Irving, although Irving fire dispatchers said many people had been calling in to ask what had happened.

Linda Andujar said she was in her Irving home when she heard a boom and felt a big ripple, followed a short time later by an aftershock.

?When the first one hit, a teenage friend called and asked if that was an earthquake. I said yes,? Andujar said, noting that she once experienced a 6.3-magnitude earthquake while on a trip to New Zealand.

?It seemed like it was quick,? said Steven Gray, who lives in Las Colinas. ?There was a small rumble, followed by a really hard shake.?

And, a reader sends word:

We live in Valley Ranch; just north of 635 and 1/2 mile off of MacArthur. Google Maps says we?re 6 miles from the epicenter. We felt a single jolt or lurch of our house. All at the same time:

? we heard the sound of glasses clinking coming from the kitchen; thought at first that glasses in our trash were settling for some reason
? the sofa we were sitting on lurched
? and the cat came running out of the kitchen.

We spent the next few minutes checking the house inside and outside before finally doing a Twitter search to discover it was an earthquake. We felt the earthquake that occurred a year ago, but it was more of a gentle movement for a few seconds. This earthquake was different because it was a single jolt.

Source: http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2012/09/north-texas-gets-a-late-night-saturday-rumble-as-3-4-magnitude-earthquake-is-recorded-near-irving.html/

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