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Minor earthquake 3.1 mag, 25 km WSW of Tonkawa, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.5785S, -97.5627WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Tonkawa in Oklahoma. Exact location of earthquake, -97.5627° West, 36.5785° North, depth 1.3 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/06/15 / 2015-06-27 22:49:07 / June 27, 2015 @ 10:49 pm. The temblor was reported at 17:49:07 / 5:49 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.3 km (1 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10002m5e. Unique identifier: us10002m5e. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 35 km (22 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guthrie, Wellington, Arkansas City (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days thirty-four, in the past 30 days seventy-four and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 25 km WSW of Tonkawa, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5627° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5785° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km WSW of Tonkawa, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-06-27 22:49:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-06-27 23:00:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 148 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.333 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10002m5e Id of event.
Event Code 10002m5e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002m5e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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