A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:22:47 / 10:22 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200041lr. Id of event: us200041lr. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/11/15 / 2015-11-03 16:22:47 / November 3, 2015 @ 4:22 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -98.0423 West, latitude 36.7204 North, depth = 5 km.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Blackwell, Enid (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days fourty-nine and in the last 365 days six hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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