{"id":779893,"date":"2026-07-23T13:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/779893\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T13:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:30:11","slug":"rare-magnitude-5-0-earthquake-strikes-texas-panhandle-felt-in-oklahoma-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/779893\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare magnitude 5.0 earthquake strikes Texas Panhandle, felt in Oklahoma City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-text\">A magnitude 5.1 earthquake rattled areas of the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles, with the epicenter striking just outside of Amarillo, Texas. Stick with FOX Weather for all the latest.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">AMARILLO, Texas \u2014 A magnitude 5.0 <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fxw_weather-news_article_main-content_article-body_2_2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/earthquakes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">earthquake<\/a> struck roughly 24 miles southeast of Miami, <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fxw_weather-news_article_main-content_article-body_2_3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/texas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Texas<\/a>, in the state&#8217;s Panhandle region at 5:21 a.m. local time Thursday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">The quake&#8217;s epicenter was relatively shallow at just 3.42 miles below the surface, according to USGS.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">According to the USGS earthquake catalog, this was the strongest earthquake recorded in the Texas Panhandle and only the fourth magnitude 4.0 or stronger earthquake to strike the region since 1900.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\"><a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fxw_weather-news_article_main-content_article-body_2_4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/how-to-watch-fox-weather-on-tv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">HOW TO WATCH FOX WEATHER<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"668\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/thu-tx-earthquake-locator-1.png\" alt=\"Texas Panhandle Earthquake\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Texas Panhandle Earthquake\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"sub-text\"> (FOX Weather \/ FOX Weather)<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">The quake was felt in <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fxw_weather-news_article_main-content_article-body_2_5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/local-weather\/texas\/amarillo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Amarillo<\/a>, Texas, as well as <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fxw_weather-news_article_main-content_article-body_2_6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/local-weather\/oklahoma\/oklahoma-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Oklahoma City<\/a> and as far east as <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fxw_weather-news_article_main-content_article-body_2_7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/local-weather\/oklahoma\/tulsa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tulsa<\/a>, Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Check back for updates on this developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A magnitude 5.1 earthquake rattled areas of the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles, with the epicenter striking just outside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,14890,3,9600,1022,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-779893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-earthquakes","tag-news","tag-oklahoma","tag-texas","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}