A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Jones in Oklahoma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:13:39 / 8:13 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10002nii. Event ids that are associated: us10002nii. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/07/15 / 2015-07-05 13:13:39 / July 5, 2015 @ 1:13 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.2225 West, latitude 35.5534 North, depth = 5 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was El Reno, Stillwater, Cushing. Event epicenter was 28 km (18 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days sixty and in the last 365 days four hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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 ESE of Jones, Oklahoma.
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