A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. Global time and date of event 22/07/16 / 2016-07-22 13:16:55 / July 22, 2016 @ 1:16 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 08:16:55 / 8:16 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 4.62 km (3 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us20006grn. Unique identifier: us20006grn. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.5467 West, latitude 36.7705 North, depth = 4.62 km.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 51 km (32 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Winfield, Perry, Wellington (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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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. 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: 17 km ESE of Medford, Oklahoma.
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