A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Edmond in Oklahoma on Tuesday. Global time and date of event 15/09/15 / 2015-09-15 16:28:42 / September 15, 2015 @ 4:28 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us20003jng. Unique identifier: us20003jng. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -97.4465° West, 35.6999° North. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:28:42 / 11:28 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Purcell, Cushing, Tecumseh (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 6 km (4 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km NNE of Edmond, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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