A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/10/16 / 2016-10-21 20:47:39 / October 21, 2016 @ 8:47 pm. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:47:39 / 3:47 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -98.7701 West, latitude 36.4426 North, depth = 5 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us20007g0b. Unique identifier: us20007g0b.
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid, Watonga, Woodward.
There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 32 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma.
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