A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Luther in Oklahoma. Unique identifier: us10006cmu. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006cmu. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/08/16 / 2016-08-10 16:34:54 / August 10, 2016 @ 4:34 pm. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:34:54 / 11:34 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.71 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -97.1893 West, latitude 35.6679 North, depth = 6.71 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Purcell, Blanchard, El Reno. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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