A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma on Thursday. Exact location, longitude -97.5215° West, latitude 36.2708° North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was reported at 06:24:35 / 6:24 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10004wil. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004wil. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/03/16 / 2016-03-10 12:24:35 / March 10, 2016 @ 12:24 pm.
Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cushing, Piedmont, Edmond (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days fourty-four and in the last 365 days six hundred and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every 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. 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: 21 km W of Perry, Oklahoma.
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