A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Crescent in Oklahoma on Friday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us10002ncz. Unique identifier: us10002ncz. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/07/15 / 2015-07-04 01:58:58 / July 4, 2015 @ 1:58 am. Exact location of event, longitude -97.4368 West, latitude 36.0765 North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was reported at 20:58:58 / 8:58 pm (local time epicenter).
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ponca City, El Reno, Del City.
There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days seventy-two and in the last 365 days six hundred and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 19 km NE of Crescent, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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