A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma on Wednesday. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -98.2424° West, 36.6861° North. The temblor was picked up at 04:38:17 / 4:38 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10003xcp. Event ids that are associated: us10003xcp. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/11/15 / 2015-11-11 10:38:17 / November 11, 2015 @ 10:38 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days fifty and in the last 365 days five hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 12 km SE of Cherokee, Oklahoma.
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