A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006p6u. Id of event: us10006p6u. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:15:21 / 9:15 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.4238 West, latitude 36.2465 North, depth = 5 km. Global time and date of event 13/09/16 / 2016-09-13 02:15:21 / September 13, 2016 @ 2:15 am UTC/GMT.
Event epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Enid, Watonga.
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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. 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: 5 km ESE of Fairview, Oklahoma.
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