A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma on Tuesday. Event id: us100069hp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100069hp. Exact location of event, longitude -98.0862 West, latitude 36.7539 North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was reported at 12:55:49 / 12:55 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/08/16 / 2016-08-02 17:55:49 / August 2, 2016 @ 5:55 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Blackwell, Enid. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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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. 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: 24 km E of Cherokee, Oklahoma.
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