A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Luther in Oklahoma on Thursday. Exact location of event, depth 5.586 km, -97.0518° West, 35.6002° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.586 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:11:18 / 11:11 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002m06. Id of event: us10002m06. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/06/15 / 2015-06-26 04:11:18 / June 26, 2015 @ 4:11 am.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tuttle, Blanchard, Purcell (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-eight, in the last 10 days fifty-four, in the past 30 days eighty-four and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-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: 14 km ESE of Luther, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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