A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma. Unique identifier: us20006hb8. Ids that are associated to the event: us20006hb8. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.07 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/07/16 / 2016-07-24 23:36:07 / July 24, 2016 @ 11:36 pm UTC/GMT. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:36:07 / 6:36 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 9.07 km, -98.7689° West, 36.4566° North.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 56 km (35 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Watonga, Woodward (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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: 33 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma.
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