A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Enid in Oklahoma. Unique identifier: us10004wxf. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004wxf. Global time and date of event 12/03/16 / 2016-03-12 01:55:02 / March 12, 2016 @ 1:55 am UTC/GMT. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:55:02 / 7:55 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 1.37 km (1 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -97.7193 West, latitude 36.3792 North, depth = 1.37 km.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 14 km (9 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ponca City, Stillwater, Guthrie (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fourty-nine and in the last 365 days seven hundred and sixteen 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: 14 km E of Enid, Oklahoma.
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