A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Pawnee in Oklahoma. Event id: us20003nnv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003nnv. Exact location of earthquake, -96.784° West, 36.3306° North, depth 5.367 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.367 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 21:22:06 / 9:22 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 24/09/15 / 2015-09-24 02:22:06 / September 24, 2015 @ 2:22 am UTC/GMT.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Sapulpa (c. 20 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Sand Springs (c. 18 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guthrie, Tulsa, Sapulpa.
In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days thirty-eight and in the last 365 days five hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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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: 1 km ESE of Pawnee, Oklahoma.
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