A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Helena in Oklahoma. The temblor was picked up at 10:09:49 / 10:09 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20006g6g. Unique identifier: us20006g6g. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.7 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -98.086 West, latitude 36.677 North, depth = 4.7 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/07/16 / 2016-07-20 15:09:49 / July 20, 2016 @ 3:09 pm.
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Blackwell, Enid (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 36 km (23 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days four hundred and fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 21 km NE of Helena, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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