First came the frackers, then came the earthquakes

‘Sometimes the dogs begin to bark a moment before the earthquake hits, sensing something that their owners cannot. Sometimes you can feel a change in air pressure on your face just as the shaking is about to begin.

But usually the earthquakes in Oklahoma – as many as three a day – arrive without warning.

“You never know when it’s going to happen,” said Ilke Crismon, a 75-year-old who grew up in Nuremberg under Allied bombing during the Second World War and now lives on a ranch outside the town of Glencoe. “We always had alarms before the bombers came. Here you just stand here and get it.”Chad Devereaux examines bricks that fell from three sides of his in-laws home in Sparks, Oklahoma, after two earthquakes hit the area in less than 24 hours.’

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