A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.82 km (4 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10003vin. Unique identifier: us10003vin. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/11/15 / 2015-11-07 11:11:54 / November 7, 2015 @ 11:11 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 05:11:54 / 5:11 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -97.8364 West, latitude 36.9225 North, depth = 5.82 km.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Perry, Derby, Haysville (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 59 km (36 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Haysville (c. 10 800 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days fourty-four and in the last 365 days five hundred and seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. 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: 15 km NW of Medford, Oklahoma.
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