A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Meeker in Oklahoma. All ids that are associated to the event: us100062u5. Unique identifier: us100062u5. The temblor was reported at 00:45:58 / 12:45 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -96.9804 West, latitude 35.4964 North, depth = 8.18 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.18 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/07/16 / 2016-07-12 05:45:58 / July 12, 2016 @ 5:45 am.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Blanchard, Piedmont, Yukon (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 7 km W of Meeker, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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