A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, Oklahoma kilometers (0 miles) from Oklahoma. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/09/15 / 2015-09-17 15:03:29 / September 17, 2015 @ 3:03 pm. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:03:29 / 3:03 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.41 km (3 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003klk. Id of event: us20003klk. Exact location of earthquake, -97.7841° West, 36.8132° North, depth 5.41 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Perry, Arkansas City, Ponca City (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days six hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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