A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. Global time and date of event 30/01/17 / 2017-01-30 09:05:34 / January 30, 2017 @ 9:05 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -97.9786° West, latitude 36.7552° North, depth = 2.29 km. The temblor was detected at 03:05:34 / 3:05 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10007w5f. Unique identifier: us10007w5f. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.29 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Epicenter of the event was 41 km (25 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Blackwell, Enid. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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