A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000bhfk. Unique identifier: us2000bhfk. Exact location, longitude -98.3336° West, latitude 36.8921° North, depth = 5 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was picked up at 17:31:31 / 5:31 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/11/17 / 2017-11-02 23:31:31 / November 2, 2017 @ 11:31 pm.
Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Enid (min 5000 pop).
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 three, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 15 km N of Cherokee, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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