A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/12/16 / 2016-12-05 17:39:11 / December 5, 2016 @ 5:39 pm. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:39:11 / 11:39 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.39 km (3 miles). Unique identifier: us10007f0q. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007f0q. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.4689 West, latitude 36.2528 North, depth = 4.39 km.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was The Village, Piedmont, Cushing. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 16 km WSW of Perry, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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