A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, Oklahoma kilometers (0 miles) from Oklahoma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005jue. Id of event: us20005jue. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/04/16 / 2016-04-19 16:45:23 / April 19, 2016 @ 4:45 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -97.7075 West, latitude 36.6423 North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was detected at 16:45:23 / 4:45 pm (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arkansas City, Wellington, Ponca City (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 31 km (20 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days six hundred and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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