A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.21 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/10/17 / 2017-10-25 15:17:47 / October 25, 2017 @ 3:17 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.5014 West, latitude 36.2806 North, depth = 5.21 km. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:17:47 / 9:17 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000awq6. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000awq6.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was The Village, Piedmont, Cushing (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 19 km W of Perry, Oklahoma.
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