A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma on Monday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/11/15 / 2015-11-24 00:54:18 / November 24, 2015 @ 12:54 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100040lf. Id of event: us100040lf. The temblor was reported at 18:54:18 / 6:54 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -98.2926° West, 36.8176° North, depth 5 km.
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Enid. The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days fifty-five and in the last 365 days five hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 9 km NE of Cherokee, Oklahoma.
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