A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Enid in Oklahoma on Monday. Exact location of event, longitude -97.7218 West, latitude 36.4395 North, depth = 2.57 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/03/16 / 2016-03-29 03:35:02 / March 29, 2016 @ 3:35 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.57 km (2 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005d3l. Id of event: us20005d3l. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:35:02 / 10:35 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Stillwater, Guthrie, Ponca City. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 15 km (9 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 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 0, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days six hundred and eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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