A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Enid in Oklahoma. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.7937 West, latitude 36.5533 North, depth = 5 km. Global time and date of event 05/02/16 / 2016-02-05 16:09:30 / February 5, 2016 @ 4:09 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004y4l. Id of event: us20004y4l. The temblor was picked up at 10:09:30 / 10:09 am (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Stillwater, Guthrie, Ponca City (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days fifty-eight and in the last 365 days seven hundred and twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 19 km NNE of Enid, Oklahoma.
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