A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/03/16 / 2016-03-02 08:22:52 / March 2, 2016 @ 8:22 am. The temblor was detected at 02:22:52 / 2:22 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -98.7408° West, latitude 36.4516° North, depth = 5.26 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10004u0m. Unique identifier: us10004u0m. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.26 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.
The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Watonga, Woodward. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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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