A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Cushing in Oklahoma. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -96.8187 West, latitude 36.0012 North, depth = 2.37 km. Event id: us20003jt8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003jt8. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:08:47 / 4:08 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.37 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/09/15 / 2015-09-15 21:08:47 / September 15, 2015 @ 9:08 pm.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jenks, Tulsa, Shawnee. Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Shawnee (c. 29 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Sapulpa (c. 20 500 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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 WNW of Cushing, Oklahoma.
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