A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Mooreland in Oklahoma. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was reported at 09:11:52 / 9:11 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/08/15 / 2015-08-12 14:11:52 / August 12, 2015 @ 2:11 pm. Unique identifier: us100031g7. Ids that are associated to the event: us100031g7. Exact location, longitude -98.9502° West, latitude 36.4677° North, depth = 5 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Woodward (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 23 km E of Mooreland, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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