A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/07/15 / 2015-07-08 01:13:20 / July 8, 2015 @ 1:13 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.499 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:13:20 / 8:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 5.499 km, -97.8828° West, 36.8427° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002vzj. Id of event: us20002vzj.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arkansas City, Ponca City, Wellington (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 50 km (31 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days fourty-seven and in the last 365 days five hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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. 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: 13 km WNW of Medford, Oklahoma.
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