A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Luther in Oklahoma. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -97.2009° West, 35.7461° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/03/16 / 2016-03-31 21:21:23 / March 31, 2016 @ 9:21 pm. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:21:23 / 4:21 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us20005dr0. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005dr0. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).
Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Blanchard, Seminole, Tuttle. Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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