A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma. The epicenter was at a depth of 4.76 km (3 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/03/16 / 2016-03-02 23:31:48 / March 2, 2016 @ 11:31 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 17:31:48 / 5:31 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.7319 West, latitude 36.4629 North, depth = 4.76 km. Event id: us10004u7w. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004u7w.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid, Watonga, Woodward (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 31 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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