A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/12/15 / 2015-12-04 00:27:40 / December 4, 2015 @ 12:27 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:27:40 / 6:27 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -98.0493° West, latitude 36.7402° North, depth = 5 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000436q. Unique identifier: us1000436q.
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Blackwell, Enid (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 41 km (26 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop).
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 one, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days sixty and in the last 365 days five hundred and ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 27 km E of Cherokee, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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