A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Cushing in Oklahoma. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:59:57 / 6:59 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/12/15 / 2015-12-14 00:59:57 / December 14, 2015 @ 12:59 am. Event id: us20004gyn. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004gyn. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.68 km (4 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -96.7359 West, latitude 35.9038 North, depth = 6.68 km.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bixby, Okmulgee, Seminole. Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Shawnee (c. 29 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Bixby (c. 20 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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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 SSE of Cushing, Oklahoma.
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