A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Medford in Oklahoma. Exact location, longitude -97.7262° West, latitude 36.6544° North, depth = 3 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3 km (2 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/11/15 / 2015-11-10 23:12:46 / November 10, 2015 @ 11:12 pm. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:12:46 / 5:12 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10003x7r. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003x7r.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arkansas City, Wellington, Ponca City (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 32 km (20 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop).
There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days sixty-three and in the last 365 days seven hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 16 km S of Medford, Oklahoma.
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