A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Waukomis in Oklahoma on Tuesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/07/15 / 2015-07-21 20:07:02 / July 21, 2015 @ 8:07 pm. The temblor was reported at 15:07:02 / 3:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -97.6424 West, latitude 36.2784 North, depth = 2.99 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.99 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us20002yzr. Event ids that are associated: us20002yzr.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Piedmont, Edmond, Ponca City (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop).
Each 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 eleven, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days sixty-one and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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