A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000862f. Unique identifier: us1000862f. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/03/17 / 2017-03-01 19:49:56 / March 1, 2017 @ 7:49 pm. The temblor was picked up at 13:49:56 / 1:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -98.7392° West, 36.4793° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Enid, Watonga, Woodward. Epicenter of the event was 78 km (48 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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. 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: 32 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma.
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