{"id":383787,"date":"2026-07-23T12:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T12:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/383787\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T12:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T12:33:10","slug":"magnitude-5-0-earthquake-in-texas-panhandle-wakes-some-oklahomans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/383787\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 5.0 earthquake in Texas Panhandle wakes some Oklahomans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you feel it? Magnitude 5.0 earthquake in Texas Panhandle wakes some Oklahomans<\/p>\n<p>A magnitude 5.0 earthquake in the Texas Panhandle on Thursday morning was felt by residents in western Oklahoma. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.koco.com\/news-team\/b2312b0f-2524-4c58-b1fd-293d663fb1fb\" aria-label=\"Mikayla Smith profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/b2312b0f-2524-4c58-b1fd-293d663fb1fb_1773345182.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Mikayla Smith\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A magnitude 5.0 earthquake in the Texas Panhandle on Thursday morning was felt all the way in Oklahoma. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Some Oklahomans reported waking up to shaking at 5:21 a.m. after an earthquake in Spearman, Texas, which is northeast of Amarillo. The shaking was felt all the way in western Oklahoma. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.koco.com\/news-team\/b2312b0f-2524-4c58-b1fd-293d663fb1fb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KOCO 5 Meteorologist Mikayla Smith<\/a> says this was a shallow earthquake, with a depth of only 5.7 kilometers. This means it was felt more at the surface, and earthquakes like these typically lead to more aftershocks. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Residents in Elk City, Woodward, Cordell, Erick, Duke and other areas in the western part of Oklahoma reported feeling the shaking.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">KOCO 5 First Alert Weather Team, led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koco.com\/news-team\/8d5a1da5-6c12-4bfc-93f2-25bab515bc88\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chief Meteorologist Damon Lane<\/a>, has been certified by WeatheRate as providing the Most Accurate Forecast in Oklahoma City for 13 consecutive years. This outstanding achievement underscores KOCO 5&#8217;s unwavering dedication to delivering reliable weather forecasts to viewers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did you feel it? Magnitude 5.0 earthquake in Texas Panhandle wakes some Oklahomans A magnitude 5.0 earthquake in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[124958,135395,135398,42300,135393,135400,2926,135392,135397,7977,135394,27,29,28,1959,57807,135399,135396],"class_list":["post-383787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-earthquake","tag-elk-city","tag-first-alert-weather-team","tag-koco","tag-magnitude","tag-more-aftershock","tag-oklahoma","tag-oklahomans","tag-other-area","tag-resident","tag-shaking","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-panhandle","tag-way","tag-western-oklahoma","tag-woodward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}