A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma on Thursday. Exact location of event, longitude -98.7004 West, latitude 36.4797 North, depth = 4.35 km. The temblor was reported at 12:32:59 / 12:32 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20004zjf. Unique identifier: us20004zjf. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.35 km (3 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/02/16 / 2016-02-11 18:32:59 / February 11, 2016 @ 6:32 pm.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Watonga, Enid, Woodward. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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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. 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: 30 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma.
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