A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma. Global time and date of event 21/02/16 / 2016-02-21 05:11:14 / February 21, 2016 @ 5:11 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us10004rh4. Unique identifier: us10004rh4. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.078 km (3 miles). The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:11:14 / 11:11 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 4.078 km, -97.543° West, 36.406° North.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guthrie, Stillwater, Ponca City (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-nine, in the last 10 days fifty, in the past 30 days seventy-seven and in the last 365 days seven hundred and thirty-eight 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.
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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: 26 km WNW of Perry, Oklahoma.
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