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Shake it up
Quakes a concern for Kansas
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It was kind of exciting to post “I survived the Kansas earthquake of Nov. 12, 2014,” on Facebook and Twitter, but it turns out earthquakes are becoming rather common in the Wheat State.According to Earthquaketrack.com, Kansas has had 48 earthquakes in the past week, 83 in the past month and 370 in the past year as of Thursday. Wednesday’s came from south of Conway Springs and measured 4.8 on the Richter scale — high enough that most people felt it (even some people 140 miles away in Great Bend) and windows rattled, but just below the level where dishes start to break and doors swing open.The U.S. Geological Survey’s National Earthquake Information Center shows fewer Kansas earthquakes — 93 so far this year, ranging in magnitude from 1.3 to 4.3. Nearly all have been in Sumner, Harper and Barber counties, and the number is up from 2013.So, it’s good to know that Gov. Sam Brownback has already established an Induced Seismicity Task Force, led by the Kansas Geological Survey.