A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.9 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/08/15 / 2015-08-13 04:15:26 / August 13, 2015 @ 4:15 am. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:15:26 / 11:15 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -97.5189° West, 36.2793° North, depth 2.9 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100031t5. Id of event: us100031t5.
The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from The Village (c. 8 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was The Village, Cushing, Piedmont.
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days fifty-two and in the last 365 days seven hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. 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: 20 km W of Perry, Oklahoma.
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