A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.5013 West, latitude 36.2606 North, depth = 4.05 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.05 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:51:06 / 1:51 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/10/15 / 2015-10-13 18:51:06 / October 13, 2015 @ 6:51 pm. Id of earthquake: us10003ndd. Event ids that are associated: us10003ndd.
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 The Village, Cushing, Piedmont. Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days fifty-eight and in the last 365 days seven hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 19 km W of Perry, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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