A minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma. Event id: us2000501f. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000501f. Exact location of event, longitude -98.729 West, latitude 36.4431 North, depth = 5 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was picked up at 18:32:16 / 6:32 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/02/16 / 2016-02-14 00:32:16 / February 14, 2016 @ 12:32 am.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid, Watonga, Woodward. Epicenter of the earthquake was 76 km (47 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 29 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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