A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. The temblor was reported at 04:53:23 / 4:53 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.5899 West, latitude 36.7504 North, depth = 6.746 km. Global time and date of event 08/07/15 / 2015-07-08 09:53:23 / July 8, 2015 @ 9:53 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.746 km (4 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us20002vze. Unique identifier: us20002vze.
The epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Winfield, Wellington, Arkansas City (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-four, in the last 10 days sixty-eight, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-four and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 14 km ESE of Medford, Oklahoma.
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