A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Mooreland in Oklahoma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.49 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -98.9587 West, latitude 36.5345 North, depth = 12.49 km. Global time and date of event 10/12/16 / 2016-12-10 18:38:35 / December 10, 2016 @ 6:38 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 12:38:35 / 12:38 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007zu5. Id of event: us20007zu5.
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 40 km (25 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Woodward (min 5000 pop).
Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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. 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: 24 km ENE of Mooreland, Oklahoma.
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