A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Perry in Oklahoma. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/09/17 / 2017-09-09 20:37:09 / September 9, 2017 @ 8:37 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000aj0w. Unique identifier: us2000aj0w. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:37:09 / 2:37 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -97.509 West, latitude 36.2829 North, depth = 4.03 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.03 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cushing, Piedmont, Edmond. Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (44 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days two hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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: 19 km W of Perry, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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