A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Crescent in Oklahoma on Monday. The temblor was picked up at 13:12:15 / 1:12 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/07/15 / 2015-07-27 18:12:15 / July 27, 2015 @ 6:12 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.18 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us200030gd. Ids that are associated to the event: us200030gd. Exact location of event, longitude -97.5761 West, latitude 36.006 North, depth = 3.18 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Shawnee, Blackwell, Ponca City. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 60 km (37 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days fifty-six and in the last 365 days six hundred and eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 6 km NNE of Crescent, Oklahoma.
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