A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/07/18 / 2018-07-26 21:02:00 / July 26, 2018 @ 9:02 pm. Id of earthquake: us2000gesi. Event ids that are associated: us2000gesi. The temblor was reported at 15:02:00 / 3:02 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -98.7896° West, 36.4372° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).
Epicenter of the event was 54 km (33 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Watonga, Woodward.
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seventy-eight 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: 33 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma.
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