A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma on Thursday. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:40:35 / 5:40 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/07/15 / 2015-07-02 22:40:35 / July 2, 2015 @ 10:40 pm. Unique identifier: us10002n4d. Ids that are associated to the event: us10002n4d. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -97.7167° West, 36.8015° North, depth 5 km.
Event epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Perry, Arkansas City, Wellington (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days fifty-three and in the last 365 days six hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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