A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. Exact location, longitude -98.0625° West, latitude 36.7302° North, depth = 5 km. Global time and date of event 30/11/15 / 2015-11-30 18:00:44 / November 30, 2015 @ 6:00 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us1000428g. Event ids that are associated: us1000428g. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:00:44 / 12:00 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Blackwell, Enid. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 41 km (25 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days fifty-nine and in the last 365 days five hundred and ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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: 26 km E of Cherokee, Oklahoma.
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