A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Cushing in Oklahoma. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.15 km (3 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us20003nwb. Unique identifier: us20003nwb. The temblor was picked up at 20:16:38 / 8:16 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 25/09/15 / 2015-09-25 01:16:38 / September 25, 2015 @ 1:16 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -96.8404 West, latitude 35.9904 North, depth = 5.15 km.
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Okmulgee, Bethany, Warr Acres. Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Shawnee (c. 29 900 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km W of Cushing, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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