A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Mooreland in Oklahoma. Exact location, longitude -98.9928° West, latitude 36.5264° North, depth = 1.139 km. Id of earthquake: us20004hjb. Event ids that are associated: us20004hjb. Global time and date of event 16/12/15 / 2015-12-16 13:00:42 / December 16, 2015 @ 1:00 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 07:00:42 / 7:00 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.139 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Woodward. Event epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-nine, in the last 10 days thirty-one, in the past 30 days fifty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km ENE of Mooreland, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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