A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma on Friday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/11/15 / 2015-11-07 04:50:08 / November 7, 2015 @ 4:50 am. The temblor was reported at 22:50:08 / 10:50 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -97.2498 West, latitude 36.2599 North, depth = 5 km. Unique identifier: us10003vfn. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003vfn.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was The Village, Piedmont, Edmond (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from The Village (c. 8 900 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days fifty and in the last 365 days six hundred and eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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: 4 km SE of Perry, Oklahoma.
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