A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. The temblor was detected at 20:19:31 / 8:19 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/07/15 / 2015-07-22 01:19:31 / July 22, 2015 @ 1:19 am. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -98.2208° West, 36.8189° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002z4e. Id of event: us20002z4e. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).
Epicenter of the event was 56 km (35 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Enid (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
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 nine, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days thirty-eight and in the last 365 days five hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km ENE of Cherokee, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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