A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.65 km (5 miles). Global time and date of event 25/01/19 / 2019-01-25 04:00:54 / January 25, 2019 @ 4:00 am UTC/GMT. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:00:54 / 10:00 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000j8m9. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000j8m9. Exact location of event, longitude -98.1992 West, latitude 36.6835 North, depth = 7.65 km.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 43 km (27 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 16 km ESE of Cherokee, Oklahoma.
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