Residents of Wichita are still talking about the weekend earthquakes that rumbled across their city—six or seven in one day.
At least six were recorded and the largest measured 3.7 magnitude with an epicenter near the suburb of Bel Aire. It was the strongest to rattle the city in several years.
Five other quakes were recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey and they ranged in magnitude from 2.3 to 3.4.
The website, Earthquake Track reported at least 9 earthquakes in a 24-hour period but many of them were weak enough that they were not felt. The site claimed Wichita had experienced 10 earthquakes in the past 7 days and 19 over in the past 30 day period.
In recent years, the region south of Wichita had experienced stronger quakes that the Kansas Geological Survey blamed on oil and gas exploration and the dramatic increase in disposal wells. Some of the quakes were strong enough to be felt by residents of northern Oklahoma.
Likewise, many quakes that once shook northern Oklahoma were quite strong enough to have been felt throughout southern Kansas and at times even by residents of Wichita. But the epicenters were located in Oklahoma.