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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Cherokee in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.6375S, -98.4276WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma on Thursday. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/11/15 / 2015-11-19 09:46:22 / November 19, 2015 @ 9:46 am UTC/GMT. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:46:22 / 3:46 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 2.82 km (2 miles). Event id: us10003zhl. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003zhl. Exact location of event, longitude -98.4276 West, latitude 36.6375 North, depth = 2.82 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 14 km SSW of Cherokee, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.4276° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6375° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km SSW 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 2015-11-19 09:46:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-19 10:00:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 148 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 0.24 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us10003zhl Id of event.
Event Code 10003zhl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003zhl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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