A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000621p. Event ids that are associated: us1000621p. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:29:38 / 5:29 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 08/07/16 / 2016-07-08 22:29:38 / July 8, 2016 @ 10:29 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.27 km (1 miles). Exact location, longitude -98.73° West, latitude 36.4658° North, depth = 2.27 km.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Enid, Watonga, Woodward (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 31 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma.
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