A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Langston in Oklahoma on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.19 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/06/15 / 2015-06-30 21:42:00 / June 30, 2015 @ 9:42 pm. The temblor was picked up at 16:42:00 / 4:42 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10002mnf. Ids that are associated to the event: us10002mnf. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.3267 West, latitude 35.9414 North, depth = 4.19 km.
Event epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Reno, Mustang, Enid (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days sixty-seven and in the last 365 days five hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 6 km W of Langston, Oklahoma.
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