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Minor earthquake 3.5 mag, 9 km NNE of Luther, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.7429S, -97.1697WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Luther in Oklahoma. Id of earthquake: us20005dr6. Event ids that are associated: us20005dr6. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:31:29 / 4:31 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 3.81 km (2 miles). Exact location, longitude -97.1697° West, latitude 35.7429° North, depth = 3.81 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/03/16 / 2016-03-31 21:31:29 / March 31, 2016 @ 9:31 pm.

Epicenter of the event was 44 km (27 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Purcell, Blanchard, Tuttle (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 eight, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 9 km NNE of Luther, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.1697° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7429° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km NNE of Luther, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-31 21:31:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-31 21:57:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 10 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.9 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.5 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 193 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 0.089 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 25 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 us20005dr6 Id of event.
Event Code 20005dr6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005dr6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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