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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Pawnee in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.3035S, -96.6757WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Pawnee in Oklahoma. Global time and date of event 18/06/15 / 2015-06-18 22:29:14 / June 18, 2015 @ 10:29 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.015 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us10002k9u. Event ids that are associated: us10002k9u. Exact location of earthquake, -96.6757° West, 36.3035° North, depth 5.015 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:29:14 / 5:29 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 63 km (39 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Owasso (c. 28 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Sapulpa (c. 20 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Blackwell, Collinsville, Owasso.

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-four, in the last 10 days fifty-one, in the past 30 days seventy-five and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 12 km ESE of Pawnee, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.6757° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.3035° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.015 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km ESE of Pawnee, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-06-18 22:29:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-06-29 02:30:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 139 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10002k9u Id of event.
Event Code 10002k9u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002k9u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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