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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Blanchard in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.009S, -97.6509WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Blanchard in Oklahoma on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/07/15 / 2015-07-14 08:22:16 / July 14, 2015 @ 8:22 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us20002xd1. Ids that are associated to the event: us20002xd1. Exact location, longitude -97.6509° West, latitude 35.009° North, depth = 7.79 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.79 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:22:16 / 3:22 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 52 km (33 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Lawton (c. 96 900 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lawton, Shawnee, Edmond (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 14 km S of Blanchard, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.6509° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.009° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km S of Blanchard, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-14 08:22:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-14 08:41:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.99 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 189 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 0.321 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 24 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 us20002xd1 Id of event.
Event Code 20002xd1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002xd1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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