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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 11 km NW of Yale, Oklahoma

Posted by admin on March 20, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.1944S, -96.7872WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Yale in Oklahoma on Sunday. Event id: us20005b7c. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005b7c. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location, longitude -96.7872° West, latitude 36.1944° North, depth = 5 km. Global time and date of event 20/03/16 / 2016-03-20 07:14:54 / March 20, 2016 @ 7:14 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 02:14:54 / 2:14 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Jenks, Glenpool, Skiatook. Epicenter of the event was 71 km (44 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Sapulpa (c. 20 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Sand Springs (c. 18 900 pop).

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 nine, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km NW of Yale, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.7872° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1944° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km NW of Yale, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-20 07:14:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-20 07:28:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 0.068 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 70 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 us20005b7c Id of event.
Event Code 20005b7c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005b7c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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