A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Stroud in Oklahoma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.69 km (2 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/07/17 / 2017-07-15 23:11:24 / July 15, 2017 @ 11:11 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 17:11:24 / 5:11 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -96.6853 West, latitude 35.857 North, depth = 3.69 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us20009wph. Unique identifier: us20009wph.
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Henryetta, Midwest City, Edmond (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Shawnee (c. 29 900 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 12 km NNW of Stroud, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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