A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Cushing in Oklahoma. Exact location of earthquake, -96.7813° West, 36.0007° North, depth 5 km. Global time and date of event 25/09/15 / 2015-09-25 01:59:03 / September 25, 2015 @ 1:59 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:59:03 / 8:59 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us20003nwu. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003nwu.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ponca City, Midwest City, Bixby (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Shawnee (c. 29 900 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days four hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. 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: 2 km NW of Cushing, Oklahoma.
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