A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, -97.5206° West, 36.3268° North, depth 5 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/10/16 / 2016-10-26 06:19:03 / October 26, 2016 @ 6:19 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Unique identifier: us20007gst. Ids that are associated to the event: us20007gst. The temblor was picked up at 01:19:03 / 1:19 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Piedmont, Cushing, Edmond (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 75 km (47 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days four hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.
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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: 21 km WNW of Perry, Oklahoma.
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