A minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma on Thursday. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -98.4496° West, 36.6354° North. The temblor was reported at 06:03:10 / 6:03 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 19/11/15 / 2015-11-19 12:03:10 / November 19, 2015 @ 12:03 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003zi6. Id of event: us10003zi6.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Enid. Earthquake epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days fourty-two and in the last 365 days five hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 15 km SSW of Cherokee, Oklahoma.
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