A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Mooreland in Oklahoma. Exact location, longitude -98.8108° West, latitude 36.4865° North, depth = 5.98 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/10/16 / 2016-10-12 07:32:34 / October 12, 2016 @ 7:32 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us20007dcv. Ids that are associated to the event: us20007dcv. The epicenter was at a depth of 5.98 km (4 miles). The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:32:34 / 2:32 am (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the event was 52 km (32 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Watonga, Woodward (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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: 35 km E of Mooreland, Oklahoma.
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