“Oh man, it just about shook this old man out of his TV chair,” said Rhea, 70, speaking with The Associated Press by telephone. He said nothing broke in his homes but he was rattled by all the shaking during the day.

Unspecified damage to buildings located close to the quake’s epicenter was reported by the Lincoln County Emergency Management department.

“Very significant damages are being reported in southern Lincoln County,” the department posted on Facebook.

An emergency manager in Lincoln County later said U.S. 62, a highway in the region, had crumbled in places.

Damage Reported After 5.6 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Oklahoma

HERE Published November 06, 2011  Associated Press

SPARKS, Okla. –  A 5.6 magnitude quake rocked Oklahoma late Saturday after a day of smaller quakes, leaving cracked buildings and a buckled highway but no major damage.

Another 4.0 magnitude earthquake hit the state at 3:39 a.m. Sunday, and was centered about 36 miles east of Oklahoma City.

The quake could prove the most powerful on state record if the 5.6 reading reported by the U.S. Geological Survey stands.
Some in Oklahoma reported cracks appeared after the latest quake.

“There’s a crack going from the closet to the ceiling. I’ve never seen that before. I was in my bedroom grabbing my phone and I happened to notice it,” said Todd McKinsey,

“Oh, man. I’ve never felt anything like that in my life,” Prague City Police Department dispatcher Claudie Morton told the Tulsa World. “It was the scariest thing. I had a police officer just come in and sit down and all the sudden the walls started shaking and the windows were rattling. It felt like the roof was going to come off the police department.”

Residents in Prague and Sparks felt an intense shaking, while farther away, the quake was more of a dull rumble, he said.

“It shakes much more rapidly when you’re closer to it,” he said. “Because it’s a large earthquake, it’s going to rumble for a while.”

Tom Foster of Oklahoma City told The Oklahoman that he slept through the earthquake but was awakened by an aftershock.

“At first I thought an airplane had crashed nearby,” she told The Oklahoman. “But now I believe it was an earthquake because the whole house just kept vibrating with what sounded like distant thunder outside.”

Newscore contributed to this report.