A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, Oklahoma kilometers (0 miles) from Oklahoma. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/10/16 / 2016-10-21 22:54:31 / October 21, 2016 @ 10:54 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -98.7599° West, 36.4413° North, depth 5.88 km. The temblor was picked up at 22:54:31 / 10:54 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007g1b. Id of event: us20007g1b. The epicenter was at a depth of 5.88 km (4 miles).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Watonga, Woodward. Epicenter of the earthquake was 56 km (35 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days three hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: Oklahoma.
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