A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Crescent in Oklahoma. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.52 km (2 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -97.4536 West, latitude 36.0753 North, depth = 3.52 km. Id of earthquake: us20003jja. Event ids that are associated: us20003jja. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/09/15 / 2015-09-15 02:12:31 / September 15, 2015 @ 2:12 am. The temblor was detected at 21:12:31 / 9:12 pm (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Reno, Del City, Harrah (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days six hundred and sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 18 km NE of Crescent, Oklahoma.
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