A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma on Tuesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007saz. Id of event: us10007saz. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/01/17 / 2017-01-10 08:29:05 / January 10, 2017 @ 8:29 am. The temblor was detected at 02:29:05 / 2:29 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.6778 West, latitude 36.6851 North, depth = 3.9 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.9 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arkansas City, Wellington, Perry (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 37 km (23 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop).
There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 14 km SSE of Medford, Oklahoma.
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