A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/01/16 / 2016-01-02 21:04:34 / January 2, 2016 @ 9:04 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -97.4689° West, latitude 36.2784° North, depth = 5 km. Unique identifier: us10004awy. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004awy. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was detected at 15:04:34 / 3:04 pm (local time epicenter).
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 70 km (43 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was The Village, Piedmont, Cushing.
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days fourty-seven and in the last 365 days seven hundred and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 16 km W of Perry, Oklahoma.
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