This past Saturday I was home watching the tube. I really cannot remember what I was watching, although I know it was NOT the OU and OSU game, when my house began to shake.

My daughter, who was too busy bouncing around like her normal 3-year-old self, didn’t skip a beat playing with her toys. I on the other hand was sitting on the couch when the shaking started.

I didn’t move an inch. I just sat there kind of in awe that the situation was really happening.

I remember glancing outside just to make sure that the streets weren’t breaking up like in the crazy earthquake end-of-the-world scene in 2012.

They weren’t, I’m happy to report.

I also was able to rule out, thanks to the help of Facebook, that Sean Reed and one of his friends weren’t the cause of the quake.

Mr. Reed joked on the social media site that alcohol consumption might have been the cause, but I countered with, "Are you sure it wasn’t a pot of beans?"

All jokes aside, within seconds of the earthquake, Facebook fired up with status updates about the rattler and I quickly knew its magnitude.

The U.S Geological Survey identified the seismic event as a whopping 4.5 magnitude with an epicenter near Arcadia and a depth of five miles. Two additional tremors were reported at 1:26 p.m. (2.8 magnitude) and 5:58 p.m. (3.1 magnitude).

The Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management reported no injuries or damage in Saturday’s quake.

That wasn’t the case two years ago when the state’s strongest ever quake of 5.6 magnitude hit on Nov. 5, 2011. That monster shook the OSU stadium just after the Cowboys defeated Kansas State and left an ESPN sports announcer speechless and wide-eyed during the postgame coverage.

Sixty miles south, the same temblor brought down castle-like turrets at St. Gregory’s University in Shawnee.

Over the last five years, more than 200 earthquakes measuring larger than 3.0 magnitude have shaken up the state. Scientists speculate one theory for the spike in seismic activity to be related to wastewater from oil and gas drilling that often is discarded by injecting it deep into underground wells.

To learn more about the earthquake situation in Oklahoma, visit www.ogs.ou.edu, which is the Oklahoma Geological Survey’s website. Community members are encouraged to report their earthquake experiences using this site, as well.