A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. Exact location, longitude -97.8204° West, latitude 36.9246° North, depth = 5 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003vnh. Id of event: us10003vnh. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/11/15 / 2015-11-08 04:04:21 / November 8, 2015 @ 4:04 am. The temblor was detected at 22:04:21 / 10:04 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Haysville, Winfield, Mulvane. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 59 km (37 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Haysville (c. 10 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days fifty-two and in the last 365 days five hundred and eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 15 km NNW of Medford, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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