A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Helena in Oklahoma on Saturday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/07/15 / 2015-07-04 21:00:28 / July 4, 2015 @ 9:00 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 16:00:28 / 4:00 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.4662 West, latitude 36.5235 North, depth = 5 km. Unique identifier: us10002nfr. Ids that are associated to the event: us10002nfr.
Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Watonga, Enid (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days fourty-five and in the last 365 days four hundred and ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km W of Helena, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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