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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Stillwater in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.0287S, -97.1376WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Stillwater in Oklahoma on Monday. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:34:49 / 10:34 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.69 km (1 miles). Event id: us100034nd. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100034nd. Exact location of earthquake, -97.1376° West, 36.0287° North, depth 1.69 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/08/15 / 2015-08-25 03:34:49 / August 25, 2015 @ 3:34 am.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid, Ponca City, Bethany (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 71 km (44 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days five hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km SW of Stillwater, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.1376° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0287° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km SW of Stillwater, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-25 03:34:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-25 04:04:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 140 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 0.253 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 38 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 us100034nd Id of event.
Event Code 100034nd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100034nd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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