A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.4571 West, latitude 36.6436 North, depth = 8.16 km. The temblor was picked up at 00:12:50 / 12:12 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003zrm. Id of event: us10003zrm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.16 km (5 miles). Global time and date of event 20/11/15 / 2015-11-20 06:12:50 / November 20, 2015 @ 6:12 am UTC/GMT.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Enid. The epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days fourty-five and in the last 365 days five hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 15 km SW of Cherokee, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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