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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.8157S, -97.7937WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, Oklahoma kilometers (0 miles) from Oklahoma. Unique identifier: us100032mh. Ids that are associated to the event: us100032mh. The temblor was reported at 21:24:39 / 9:24 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.64 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -97.7937° West, 36.8157° North, depth 1.64 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/08/15 / 2015-08-15 21:24:39 / August 15, 2015 @ 9:24 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Perry, Arkansas City, Ponca City. Epicenter of the earthquake was 47 km (29 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days fifty-four and in the last 365 days six hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.7937° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.8157° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-15 21:24:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-15 21:34:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 138 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 0.063 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 36 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 us100032mh Id of event.
Event Code 100032mh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100032mh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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