A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. Exact location of event, longitude -98.1778 West, latitude 36.7777 North, depth = 5 km. Event id: us20002w3b. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002w3b. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/07/15 / 2015-07-08 17:52:52 / July 8, 2015 @ 5:52 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 12:52:52 / 12:52 pm (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days five hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.
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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 16 km E of Cherokee, Oklahoma.
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