A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Taloga in Oklahoma. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:28:06 / 7:28 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -98.9149 West, latitude 36.216 North, depth = 3.38 km. Event id: us10008vz2. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008vz2. The epicenter was at a depth of 3.38 km (2 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/05/17 / 2017-05-29 01:28:06 / May 29, 2017 @ 1:28 am.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Clinton, Watonga, Woodward. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Clinton (c. 9 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 20 km NNE of Taloga, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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