A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Guthrie in Oklahoma on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/03/17 / 2017-03-08 21:33:00 / March 8, 2017 @ 9:33 pm. Exact location of event, depth 7.157 km, -97.3498° West, 35.9124° North. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:33:00 / 3:33 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us100087su. Unique identifier: us100087su. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.157 km (4 miles).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Norman, Shawnee, Enid. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop).
There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 7 km ENE of Guthrie, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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