A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. Exact location of event, longitude -98.3409 West, latitude 36.8632 North, depth = 4.08 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.08 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:45:16 / 6:45 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us20005c0j. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005c0j. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/03/16 / 2016-03-23 11:45:16 / March 23, 2016 @ 11:45 am.
Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Enid (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days four hundred and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
Questions or comments?
How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 12 km N of Cherokee, Oklahoma.
Copyright © 2016 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.
Leave a Reply