A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.6909 West, latitude 36.6252 North, depth = 7.61 km. Id of earthquake: us10003vjg. Event ids that are associated: us10003vjg. The temblor was picked up at 06:24:05 / 6:24 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/11/15 / 2015-11-07 12:24:05 / November 7, 2015 @ 12:24 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.61 km (5 miles).
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wellington, Arkansas City, Ponca City. The epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days sixty and in the last 365 days seven hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 20 km S of Medford, Oklahoma.
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