A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Crescent in Oklahoma. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.66 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.5209 West, latitude 36.0276 North, depth = 9.66 km. The temblor was reported at 13:54:33 / 1:54 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/07/16 / 2016-07-18 18:54:33 / July 18, 2016 @ 6:54 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006fky. Id of event: us20006fky.
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Moore, Mustang, Harrah (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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 six, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km NE of Crescent, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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