A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.427 West, latitude 36.6999 North, depth = 4.867 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008www. Id of event: us10008www. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/05/17 / 2017-05-31 20:05:29 / May 31, 2017 @ 8:05 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.867 km (3 miles). The temblor was detected at 14:05:29 / 2:05 pm (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the event was 60 km (37 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 8 km SW of Cherokee, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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