A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Langston in Oklahoma on Saturday. Exact location, longitude -97.1855° West, latitude 35.9814° North, depth = 5 km. Global time and date of event 06/02/16 / 2016-02-06 09:19:18 / February 6, 2016 @ 9:19 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us20004yb3. Unique identifier: us20004yb3. The temblor was detected at 03:19:18 / 3:19 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid, Shawnee, Moore. Epicenter of the earthquake was 64 km (40 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days four hundred and ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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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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. 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: 7 km ENE of Langston, Oklahoma.
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