A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/02/16 / 2016-02-27 21:08:04 / February 27, 2016 @ 9:08 pm. Exact location, longitude -98.7714° West, latitude 36.4831° North, depth = 8.422 km. Unique identifier: us10004ujs. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004ujs. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.422 km (5 miles). The temblor was detected at 15:08:04 / 3:08 pm (local time epicenter).
Event epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 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 Woodward.
In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 35 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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