A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 05:12:56 / 5:12 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/08/15 / 2015-08-27 10:12:56 / August 27, 2015 @ 10:12 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000359f. Unique identifier: us1000359f. Exact location of event, longitude -97.3218 West, latitude 36.2588 North, depth = 5 km.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Piedmont, Edmond, Blackwell (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days fourty-four and in the last 365 days seven hundred and one 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. 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: 4 km SW of Perry, Oklahoma.
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