A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Hennessey in Oklahoma on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.63 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -97.9131 West, latitude 36.0235 North, depth = 1.63 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/11/17 / 2017-11-01 13:19:39 / November 1, 2017 @ 1:19 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000azuy. Id of event: us1000azuy. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:19:39 / 7:19 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Choctaw, Tuttle, Midwest City (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Yukon (c. 22 700 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 five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 9 km S of Hennessey, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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