A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Stillwater in Oklahoma. The epicenter was at a depth of 4.965 km (3 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10004b27. Unique identifier: us10004b27. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/01/16 / 2016-01-03 21:38:49 / January 3, 2016 @ 9:38 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -97.214 West, latitude 36.0695 North, depth = 4.965 km. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:38:49 / 3:38 pm (local time epicenter).
Event epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Blackwell, Yukon, Del City. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days fourty-three and in the last 365 days five hundred and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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