A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma on Wednesday. Global time and date of event 26/08/15 / 2015-08-26 07:33:09 / August 26, 2015 @ 7:33 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us100034yz. Unique identifier: us100034yz. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.45 km (5 miles). The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:33:09 / 2:33 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.035 West, latitude 36.8493 North, depth = 7.45 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wellington, Blackwell, Enid. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 52 km (33 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days fourty-four and in the last 365 days five hundred and seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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