A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Pawnee in Oklahoma. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -96.6555 West, latitude 36.3133 North, depth = 1.99 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10007ex4. Unique identifier: us10007ex4. The epicenter was at a depth of 1.99 km (1 miles). Global time and date of event 05/12/16 / 2016-12-05 05:12:39 / December 5, 2016 @ 5:12 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 23:12:39 / 11:12 pm (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Bartlesville (c. 35 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Owasso (c. 28 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bartlesville, Collinsville, Owasso (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.
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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 13 km ESE of Pawnee, Oklahoma.
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