A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Pawnee in Oklahoma. Exact location of earthquake, -96.8842° West, 36.4589° North, depth 7.65 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/04/16 / 2016-04-21 11:22:38 / April 21, 2016 @ 11:22 am. Id of earthquake: us20005kfv. Event ids that are associated: us20005kfv. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.65 km (5 miles). The temblor was picked up at 06:22:38 / 6:22 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arkansas City, Cushing, Blackwell (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Cushing (c. 7 800 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop).
There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 15 km NNW of Pawnee, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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