A minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.843 West, latitude 36.6685 North, depth = 4.94 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10002x6t. Unique identifier: us10002x6t. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/08/15 / 2015-08-01 20:28:48 / August 1, 2015 @ 8:28 pm. The temblor was detected at 15:28:48 / 3:28 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.94 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arkansas City, Wellington, Ponca City (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 31 km (19 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Perry (c. 5 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days fifty-three and in the last 365 days seven hundred and thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 18 km SSW of Medford, Oklahoma.
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