A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Guthrie in Oklahoma on Monday. Exact location of event, longitude -97.3755 West, latitude 35.8481 North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was reported at 09:18:00 / 9:18 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 28/08/17 / 2017-08-28 15:18:00 / August 28, 2017 @ 3:18 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us2000aci1. Event ids that are associated: us2000aci1.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tecumseh, Enid, Tuttle (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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