A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/09/15 / 2015-09-30 19:31:23 / September 30, 2015 @ 7:31 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -98.7227 West, latitude 36.3694 North, depth = 5 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us10003jcc. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003jcc. The temblor was detected at 14:31:23 / 2:31 pm (local time epicenter).
The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Enid, Watonga, Woodward (min 5000 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 ten, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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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. 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: 24 km WNW of Fairview, Oklahoma.
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