A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. Event id: us10004acq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004acq. Exact location of event, longitude -98.0001 West, latitude 36.6986 North, depth = 4.47 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.47 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 21:45:08 / 9:45 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 30/12/15 / 2015-12-30 03:45:08 / December 30, 2015 @ 3:45 am UTC/GMT.
The epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Perry (c. 5 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ponca City, Perry, Blackwell.
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days six hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 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: 26 km WSW of Medford, Oklahoma.
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