A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Stroud in Oklahoma on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, -96.6968° West, 35.8549° North, depth 5 km. The temblor was detected at 22:18:33 / 10:18 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/09/17 / 2017-09-29 04:18:33 / September 29, 2017 @ 4:18 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000awd1. Unique identifier: us2000awd1.
Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (44 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Shawnee (c. 29 900 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Midwest City, Edmond, Bixby.
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 12 km NNW of Stroud, Oklahoma.
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