A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma on Sunday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/07/15 / 2015-07-05 16:27:50 / July 5, 2015 @ 4:27 pm. The temblor was picked up at 11:27:50 / 11:27 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -97.5495° West, 36.7572° North, depth 7.113 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10002nnp. Unique identifier: us10002nnp. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.113 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Event epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Winfield, Wellington, Perry. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days seventy-three and in the last 365 days six hundred and ninety-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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: 17 km ESE of Medford, Oklahoma.
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