A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Pawnee in Oklahoma. Global time and date of event 18/06/15 / 2015-06-18 22:29:14 / June 18, 2015 @ 10:29 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.015 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us10002k9u. Event ids that are associated: us10002k9u. Exact location of earthquake, -96.6757° West, 36.3035° North, depth 5.015 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:29:14 / 5:29 pm (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 63 km (39 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Owasso (c. 28 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Sapulpa (c. 20 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Blackwell, Collinsville, Owasso.
In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-four, in the last 10 days fifty-one, in the past 30 days seventy-five and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 12 km ESE of Pawnee, Oklahoma.
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