A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. The temblor was detected at 10:50:40 / 10:50 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us100072p0. Unique identifier: us100072p0. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/10/16 / 2016-10-28 15:50:40 / October 28, 2016 @ 3:50 pm. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -98.0614° West, 36.7523° North.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Blackwell, Enid (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 43 km (27 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop).
There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 26 km E of Cherokee, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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