A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/07/15 / 2015-07-21 09:08:42 / July 21, 2015 @ 9:08 am. The temblor was reported at 04:08:42 / 4:08 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.2315 West, latitude 36.811 North, depth = 5 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002yum. Id of event: us20002yum.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Enid. Event epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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: 12 km ENE of Cherokee, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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