A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Pawnee in Oklahoma. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -96.8073° West, 36.3892° North. The temblor was reported at 10:54:30 / 10:54 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/07/15 / 2015-07-15 15:54:30 / July 15, 2015 @ 3:54 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us20002xp8. Unique identifier: us20002xp8.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (48 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Sapulpa (c. 20 500 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Sand Springs (c. 18 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guthrie, Tulsa, Arkansas City. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 eleven, in the past 30 days sixty-one and in the last 365 days five hundred and eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km N of Pawnee, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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Kathy selman
Yep, felt like I was dizzy, but looked it up. It was a quake!