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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Stroud in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.7996S, -96.6805WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Stroud in Oklahoma. Exact location of event, longitude -96.6805 West, latitude 35.7996 North, depth = 4.475 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/10/15 / 2015-10-02 12:57:19 / October 2, 2015 @ 12:57 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003jru. Id of event: us10003jru. The temblor was detected at 07:57:19 / 7:57 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.475 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Del City, Perry, Midwest City (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 73 km (46 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Shawnee (c. 29 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 seven, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 6 km NNW of Stroud, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.6805° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7996° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.475 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km NNW of Stroud, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-02 12:57:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-04 21:26:35 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 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 158 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 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 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 us10003jru Id of event.
Event Code 10003jru An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003jru, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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