A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/03/16 / 2016-03-03 05:42:35 / March 3, 2016 @ 5:42 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -98.729° West, 36.4551° North. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:42:35 / 11:42 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10004u99. Unique identifier: us10004u99.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Enid, Watonga, Woodward (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 30 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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