A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Crescent in Oklahoma. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/11/15 / 2015-11-19 14:24:58 / November 19, 2015 @ 2:24 pm. The temblor was reported at 08:24:58 / 8:24 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 3.17 km (2 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003zit. Id of event: us10003zit. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.5837 West, latitude 36.0877 North, depth = 3.17 km.
Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Blackwell, Moore, Ponca City (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days fourty-eight and in the last 365 days six hundred and ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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. 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: 15 km N of Crescent, Oklahoma.
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