A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Yale in Oklahoma. The temblor was detected at 15:10:59 / 3:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -96.8221 West, latitude 36.1898 North, depth = 4.58 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.58 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 05/08/15 / 2015-08-05 20:10:59 / August 5, 2015 @ 8:10 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us10002y8v. Ids that are associated to the event: us10002y8v.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Skiatook, Tulsa, Sapulpa (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Sapulpa (c. 20 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Sand Springs (c. 18 900 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days five hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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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: 13 km NW of Yale, Oklahoma.
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