A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma. Unique identifier: us10004wiw. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004wiw. The temblor was picked up at 07:56:34 / 7:56 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -98.6705 West, latitude 36.5079 North, depth = 5 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/03/16 / 2016-03-10 13:56:34 / March 10, 2016 @ 1:56 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Watonga, Enid, Woodward. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 31 km NNW of Fairview, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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