A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Ratliff City in Oklahoma. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.42516667 West, latitude 34.39083333 North, depth = 5.58 km. Global time and date of event 22/02/21 / 2021-02-22 05:20:00 / February 22, 2021 @ 5:20 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.58 km (3 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:20:00 / 5:20 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ok2021drks. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000dk0l, ok2021drks.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Purcell, Duncan, Pauls Valley. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 35 km (22 miles) from Ardmore (c. 24 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Duncan (c. 23 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Pauls Valley (c. 6 200 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Purcell (c. 5 900 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Lone Grove (c. 5 100 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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