A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, Oklahoma kilometers (0 miles) from Oklahoma. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 5.59 km (3 miles). Unique identifier: us200030g9. Ids that are associated to the event: us200030g9. The temblor was detected at 17:49:28 / 5:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 5.59 km, -97.5667° West, 36.0018° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/07/15 / 2015-07-27 17:49:28 / July 27, 2015 @ 5:49 pm.
Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ponca City, Norman, Newcastle (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days fifty-five and in the last 365 days six hundred and seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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