Magnitude-4.2 earthquake shakes central Oklahoma, south-central Kansas

South-central Kansas residents reported strong shaking at their homes Saturday morning caused by a central Oklahoma earthquake with a magnitude of 4.2.

The earthquake’s epicenter was 12 miles north of Crescent, Okla., which is about 45 miles north of Oklahoma City and 28 miles west of Stillwater, the United States Geological Survey reported on its website. Crescent is 136 miles south of Wichita.

The earthquake had a depth of 3.17 miles and began at 8:21 a.m. Saturday.

Another earthquake-tracking website, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre, recorded it as a quake with a magnitude of 4.9.

Residents of Wichita, Derby and Hutchinson recorded responses on the USGS’s “Did You Feel it?” website.

It was the largest recorded earthquake in the region since a magnitude-4.2 quake near Cherokee, Okla., on Feb. 5. That earthquake initially was recorded as having a magnitude of 4.3.

Quakes of similar intensity were also recorded near Perry and Medford, Okla., in late January.

More than a dozen small to moderate earthquakes have been recorded in Oklahoma since Friday afternoon. The earthquakes began shortly before 4 p.m. Friday and ranged from a magnitude of 2.7 to the 4.2, with at least two recorded at a magnitude of 3.7.

This story was originally published April 4, 2015 at 9:07 AM with the headline "Magnitude-4.2 earthquake shakes central Oklahoma, south-central Kansas."