A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Crescent in Oklahoma. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/07/15 / 2015-07-15 08:57:16 / July 15, 2015 @ 8:57 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.5708 West, latitude 36.0025 North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was reported at 03:57:16 / 3:57 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20002xl4. Unique identifier: us20002xl4. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Newcastle, Tuttle, Watonga. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 60 km (37 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 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 two, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days sixty-eight and in the last 365 days six hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km NNE of Crescent, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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