A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Luther in Oklahoma on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: us10008s3l. Unique identifier: us10008s3l. Global time and date of event 13/05/17 / 2017-05-13 06:09:21 / May 13, 2017 @ 6:09 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 00:09:21 / 12:09 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.1894 West, latitude 35.7935 North, depth = 7.081 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.081 km (4 miles).
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was El Reno, Noble, Newcastle (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 47 km (29 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 43 km (26 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 nine, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km N of Luther, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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