A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Mooreland in Oklahoma. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004t1b. Id of event: us10004t1b. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 24.98 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -98.9799° West, 36.4827° North, depth 24.98 km. Global time and date of event 26/02/16 / 2016-02-26 22:29:04 / February 26, 2016 @ 10:29 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 16:29:04 / 4:29 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Woodward. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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: 20 km ENE of Mooreland, Oklahoma.
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