A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Edmond in Oklahoma. The epicenter was at a depth of 5.39 km (3 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/11/15 / 2015-11-30 11:50:15 / November 30, 2015 @ 11:50 am. The temblor was picked up at 05:50:15 / 5:50 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000425g. Unique identifier: us1000425g. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.4033 West, latitude 35.6754 North, depth = 5.39 km.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Purcell, Perry, Cushing. The epicenter was 25 km (16 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 7 km ENE of Edmond, Oklahoma.
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