A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma. The temblor was reported at 23:30:10 / 11:30 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3 km (2 miles). Exact location, longitude -97.3493° West, latitude 36.4142° North, depth = 3 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/11/15 / 2015-11-07 05:30:10 / November 7, 2015 @ 5:30 am. Id of earthquake: us10003vfw. Event ids that are associated: us10003vfw.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arkansas City, Cushing, Guthrie (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days fifty-five and in the last 365 days seven hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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