A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Waukomis in Oklahoma. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.6455 West, latitude 36.2844 North, depth = 4.72 km. Event id: us10004wnd. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004wnd. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.72 km (3 miles). The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:42:19 / 5:42 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/03/16 / 2016-03-10 23:42:19 / March 10, 2016 @ 11:42 pm.
The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Piedmont, Edmond, Ponca City.
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days fourty-seven and in the last 365 days seven hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 22 km E of Waukomis, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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