A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/02/16 / 2016-02-06 20:39:09 / February 6, 2016 @ 8:39 pm. The temblor was detected at 14:39:09 / 2:39 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.35 km (3 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -97.765° West, 36.8097° North, depth 4.35 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us20004ye0. Unique identifier: us20004ye0.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Winfield, Perry, Arkansas City. The epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days six hundred and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 2 km W of Medford, Oklahoma.
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