A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. All ids that are associated to the event: us10008qcs. Unique identifier: us10008qcs. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/05/17 / 2017-05-07 21:08:20 / May 7, 2017 @ 9:08 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 14.68 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 15:08:20 / 3:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -98.1247° West, latitude 36.9012° North, depth = 14.68 km.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wellington, Blackwell, Enid (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 60 km (38 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 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 four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days two hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 26 km NE of Cherokee, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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