A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/06/15 / 2015-06-02 04:18:58 / June 2, 2015 @ 4:18 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us20002lpk. Event ids that are associated: us20002lpk. The temblor was picked up at 23:18:58 / 11:18 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -97.3869 West, latitude 36.2626 North, depth = 7.077 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.077 km (4 miles).
Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 68 km (42 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Piedmont, Edmond, Cushing.
In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-four, in the last 10 days eighty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and eighteen and in the last 365 days seven hundred and thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 9 km WSW of Perry, Oklahoma.
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