A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Blanchard in Oklahoma on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was picked up at 18:08:56 / 6:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/07/16 / 2016-07-07 23:08:56 / July 7, 2016 @ 11:08 pm. Unique identifier: us100061re. Ids that are associated to the event: us100061re. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.6106 West, latitude 35.083 North, depth = 5 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Duncan, Shawnee, Edmond. Epicenter of the earthquake was 44 km (27 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 7 km SE of Blanchard, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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