A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/08/16 / 2016-08-05 20:27:38 / August 5, 2016 @ 8:27 pm. Exact location of event, depth 2.77 km, -97.5136° West, 36.2813° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.77 km (2 miles). Event id: us10006bmu. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006bmu. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:27:38 / 3:27 pm (local time epicenter).
Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cushing, Piedmont, Edmond (min 5000 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 three, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 20 km W of Perry, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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