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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Waukomis in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.2909S, -97.6827WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Waukomis in Oklahoma on Wednesday. Unique identifier: us10003zf1. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003zf1. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -97.6827° West, 36.2909° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/11/15 / 2015-11-19 03:34:05 / November 19, 2015 @ 3:34 am. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:34:05 / 9:34 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Edmond, Piedmont, Ponca City. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 73 km (46 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 19 km E of Waukomis, Oklahoma. This information 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 -97.6827° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2909° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km E of Waukomis, 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 03:34:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-19 03:46:49 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 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 0.323 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 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 us10003zf1 Id of event.
Event Code 10003zf1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003zf1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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