A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Mooreland in Oklahoma. Exact location of event, longitude -98.9703 West, latitude 36.521 North, depth = 5.286 km. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:51:07 / 6:51 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.286 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/09/15 / 2015-09-22 23:51:07 / September 22, 2015 @ 11:51 pm. Id of earthquake: us20003nba. Event ids that are associated: us20003nba.
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Woodward.
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 22 km ENE of Mooreland, Oklahoma.
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