A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. All ids that are associated to the event: us10002ne9. Unique identifier: us10002ne9. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.5624 West, latitude 36.7405 North, depth = 5 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/07/15 / 2015-07-04 12:33:51 / July 4, 2015 @ 12:33 pm. The temblor was picked up at 07:33:51 / 7:33 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Winfield, Wellington, Arkansas City (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days seventy-six and in the last 365 days seven hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km ESE of Medford, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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