A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Boley in Oklahoma. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/08/15 / 2015-08-07 03:04:13 / August 7, 2015 @ 3:04 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 14.77 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us10003003. Event ids that are associated: us10003003. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -96.5019 West, latitude 35.4164 North, depth = 14.77 km. The temblor was picked up at 22:04:13 / 10:04 pm (local time epicenter).
Earthquake epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Shawnee (c. 29 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Sapulpa (c. 20 500 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Ada (c. 16 800 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Okmulgee (c. 12 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Choctaw (c. 11 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Glenpool, Sapulpa, Ada (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.
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