A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Blanchard in Oklahoma on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/07/15 / 2015-07-14 08:22:16 / July 14, 2015 @ 8:22 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us20002xd1. Ids that are associated to the event: us20002xd1. Exact location, longitude -97.6509° West, latitude 35.009° North, depth = 7.79 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.79 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:22:16 / 3:22 am (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 52 km (33 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Lawton (c. 96 900 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lawton, Shawnee, Edmond (min 5000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 14 km S of Blanchard, Oklahoma.
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