A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/06/16 / 2016-06-09 04:44:06 / June 9, 2016 @ 4:44 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.367 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 23:44:06 / 11:44 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20006302. Unique identifier: us20006302. Exact location of earthquake, -98.0686° West, 36.7587° North, depth 6.367 km.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 44 km (27 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Blackwell, Enid.
Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes 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 twenty-five, in the last 10 days thirty-two, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days four hundred and seventy-six 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 25 km E of Cherokee, Oklahoma.
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