A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Hennessey in Oklahoma. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/08/17 / 2017-08-17 03:52:31 / August 17, 2017 @ 3:52 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 21:52:31 / 9:52 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -97.8145° West, latitude 36.1327° North, depth = 10.31 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10.31 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us2000a902. Event ids that are associated: us2000a902.
Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mustang, Oklahoma City, Bethany (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Yukon (c. 22 700 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 8 km ENE of Hennessey, Oklahoma.
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