While many people might have slept through the earthquake that struck near Carney last week, Meeker’s Mayor Donna Weber did not.
“I was in my office chair and it started moving with me in it. It was 3:57 a.m.,” she noted.
The mayor, who resides in a double-wide mobile home on her daughter’s land off of SH 18, said, “I’m up at that time already in the morning. I was using my computer,” Weber added.
She explained further, “I’m used to earthquakes since I grew up in California and my husband and I lived in Oregon for 20 years before he passed away.”
Weber said she texted her daughter who lives in a house in front of her and she told her mom she didn’t feel anything, she slept right through it.
Carney School Supt. Brian Keith said, “It woke up my wife and she woke me up.” Keith said he is not aware of any damage to the school.
According to USGS Earthquake Oklahoma, there were four earthquakes in Lincoln County, the first reported at 3:57 a.m. Thursday, April 6. The magnitude of that quake was 4.0 and located 8 miles from Chandler, southeast of Carney.
It was followed by a 3.2 quake at 4:16 a.m. that morning The other two occurred on Friday, one that measured 3.4 at 8:36 a.m. and the other at 9:44 a.m. which had a magnitude of 2.6.
Those other three quakes also were located eight miles from Chandler, southeast of Carney, according to the USGS Earthquake Oklahoma.
There were reports of cracks in buildings, but no major damage.
Lincoln County Sheriff’s Sgt. Aaron Bennett said, “I felt the large one around 4 a.m. It woke me up.”
District 3 County Commissioner Lee Doolen said he slept right through it.
Meeker’s Town Administrator Jeff Wilbourn said he didn’t feel the early morning quake, but that a staff member at Town Hall who lives in Chandler was woke up by it.
Lincoln County Emergency Management Director Cody McDonell said he was asleep and didn’t feel it. He had just gotten back from assisting with the wildfires in Blaine County, he said.