A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma on Monday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/02/16 / 2016-02-02 02:29:57 / February 2, 2016 @ 2:29 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was reported at 20:29:57 / 8:29 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.7272 West, latitude 36.4721 North, depth = 5 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us20004wfa. Unique identifier: us20004wfa.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid, Watonga, Woodward (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 31 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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