A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma on Thursday. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/11/15 / 2015-11-19 09:46:22 / November 19, 2015 @ 9:46 am UTC/GMT. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:46:22 / 3:46 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 2.82 km (2 miles). Event id: us10003zhl. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003zhl. Exact location of event, longitude -98.4276 West, latitude 36.6375 North, depth = 2.82 km.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 14 km SSW of Cherokee, Oklahoma.
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