A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma. Exact location of event, longitude -97.565 West, latitude 36.2391 North, depth = 1.7 km. The temblor was picked up at 16:46:42 / 4:46 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/08/16 / 2016-08-09 21:46:42 / August 9, 2016 @ 9:46 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.7 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006cgg. Id of event: us10006cgg.
Event epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 47 km (30 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Yukon (c. 22 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Watonga, Choctaw, El Reno (min 5000 pop). Close 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 five, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and ninety-nine 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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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: 25 km WSW of Perry, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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