A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Cushing in Oklahoma. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/03/16 / 2016-03-11 07:32:11 / March 11, 2016 @ 7:32 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us10004wpq. Unique identifier: us10004wpq. The temblor was reported at 01:32:11 / 1:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -96.8544 West, latitude 35.9951 North, depth = 2.65 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.65 km (2 miles).
Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Shawnee (c. 29 900 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Sapulpa (c. 20 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Midwest City, Glenpool, Shawnee (min 5000 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 7 km W of Cushing, Oklahoma.
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