A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.44 km (5 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -98.1676° West, 36.8163° North, depth 7.44 km. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:24:09 / 1:24 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20002yz5. Unique identifier: us20002yz5. Global time and date of event 21/07/15 / 2015-07-21 18:24:09 / July 21, 2015 @ 6:24 pm UTC/GMT.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Blackwell, Enid. Event epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days five hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 18 km ENE of Cherokee, Oklahoma.
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