A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) strikes 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Spencer in Oklahoma on Thursday. The temblor was reported at 21:06:29 / 9:06 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/09/16 / 2016-09-09 02:06:29 / September 9, 2016 @ 2:06 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006n8p. Id of event: us10006n8p. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.3848 West, latitude 35.5213 North, depth = 5 km.
Earthquake epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Perry, Cushing, Seminole (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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