A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma on Wednesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/09/15 / 2015-09-30 08:28:18 / September 30, 2015 @ 8:28 am. The temblor was picked up at 03:28:18 / 3:28 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -98.3282° West, latitude 36.703° North, depth = 8.22 km. Unique identifier: us10003j29. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003j29. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.22 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid. Earthquake epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days five hundred and thirty-two 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. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km SSE of Cherokee, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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