Oh God!! The Largest earthquake in 35 years hits Arkansas

Greenbrier, Arkansas - hit the central Arkansas town of Greenbrier for months by hundreds of small earthquakes, and after he awakened from the largest earthquake hit the state in 35 years, said residents Monday they are unsettled by the increasing severity and the lack of warning.
The U.S. Geological Survey recorded the quake at 11 clock Sunday centered northeast of Greenbrier, about 40 miles north of Little Rock. It was the largest of more than 800 earthquakes strike the region since September in what is now being called the Guy-Greenbrier earthquake swarm.
The activity has gained national attention and researchers to examine whether there is a possible connection to the natural environment gas drilling industry. The earthquake activity varies each week, although as many as nearly two dozen small earthquakes have occurred in a day.
"You do not know what to expect. It's grueling," said Corinne Tarkington, an employee at a local flower and gift shop. "I woke up shivering last night to the sound of my house."
What woke Tarkington was a magnitude 4.7 earthquake, which was also in Oklahoma, Missouri, Tennessee and Mississippi felt. No injuries or serious damages were reported, but the escalation in the severity of earthquakes in and around the small north-central Arkansas town has many residents on edge. Some said they are beginning to see damage to their homes, such as cracks in walls and driveways.
"We probably had 40-50 calls last night," police Sgt Rick Green Brier Woody said, noting that had the tone of the conversation changed. After permeable quakes that most callers simply wanted to find out whether they had heard a loud noise was an earthquake, he said.
"The fear was calmed down by yesterday evening," Woody said Monday. "People's main concerns (now) as to whether these earthquakes are, you get a bigger one."
Scott Ausbrooks, seismologist for the Arkansas Geological Survey, said Sunday ever earthquake was in the "end up" which, scientists expect to happen, taking that decision on this flock and others in the past. It is possible that a quake of magnitude occur from 5.0 to 5.5 could, but everything is larger than the highly unlikely, he said.
Ausbrooks said he plans a town hall meeting in Green Brier hold next month to address the concerns of the people.
"The quake actually scared people," he said. "It took longer than many of the other."
Ausbrooks said scientists to investigate further whether there is a connection between the earthquake and local injection can be well when the gas industry to pump waste water that can not be used for hydraulic fracturing of drills. Fracturing, or "Fracking" involves injecting pressurized water to create fractures in the ground to free the gas deep to help.
Geologists do not believe that the break is the problem, but maybe the return well.
An important source of state natural gas is the Fayetteville Shale, an organic-rich rock formation in north central Arkansas. A six-month moratorium was established in January on new injection wells in the area, to allow time to study the relationship - if any - between the well and the earthquake.
In Greenbrier, many residents are starting to gradually damage noted. Tarkington said her house has begun to show cracks in ceilings and walls.
"You can see the wear and tear on our houses," she said. "I wish they would go away."
Taylor Farrell, 29, a Greenbrier resident and employee at a local flea market, said a large crack in her driveway formed a few months, and has spread like the earthquakes continued, the crack in her garage.
She said she and her husband had everything from the walls of her house, including family photos and TV set in as many pictures had fallen in the last quake.
"Besides, there really is not much more you can," she said. "It's Mother Earth. It will do what it will do. All we can do is to hope and pray big, it happens not wait."