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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Cherokee in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.8457S, -98.2021WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma on Monday. The temblor was detected at 15:54:32 / 3:54 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002yqj. Id of event: us20002yqj. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/07/15 / 2015-07-20 20:54:32 / July 20, 2015 @ 8:54 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -98.2021 West, latitude 36.8457 North, depth = 5 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wellington, Blackwell, Enid (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days five hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 17 km NE of Cherokee, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.2021° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.8457° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km NE of Cherokee, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-20 20:54:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-20 21:22:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 11 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.67 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 249 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 0.042 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 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 us20002yqj Id of event.
Event Code 20002yqj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002yqj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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