Oklahoma officials clear senior home after quake



     

    (AP)-A magnitude 5.0 earthquake could be felt as far as Little Rock Sunday. Reports indicate the quake was the fifth largest ever recorded in the state. KY3 News in Springfield says social media posters say they also felt the quake from Kansas City to northwest Arkansas.

     Emergency officials in Cushing, Oklahoma, have evacuated

an assisted living center catering to the elderly after the

earthquake struck the city.

     Assistant City Manager Jeremy Frazier said that while damage was reported at

the Cimarron Tower after Sunday night’s quake, no injuries were reported among

the home’s residents.

     It wasn’t immediately known how many people lived at the building in downtown

Cushing. Tulsa television station KOTV said some of those taken from the home

were moved to the Cushing Youth Center.

     Frazier said the temblor caused the most damage in and around Cushing’s

century-old downtown. A number of brick facades had collapsed, and window panes

in several buildings shattered. Frazier said city leaders could do a better

assessment after sun-up.

     Concerns were raised, too, about possible damage in a crude oil tank farm near

the city that holds 58.5 million barrels, but there were no immediate reports of

trouble. News in Springfield also reports

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