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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 19 km SE of Helena, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.4084S, -98.1262WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Helena in Oklahoma. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.11 km (2 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.1262 West, latitude 36.4084 North, depth = 3.11 km. The temblor was detected at 04:59:16 / 4:59 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/04/16 / 2016-04-17 09:59:16 / April 17, 2016 @ 9:59 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us20005j6x. Unique identifier: us20005j6x.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Perry (c. 5 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Perry, Watonga, Enid (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 19 km SE of Helena, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.1262° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4084° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km SE of Helena, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-17 09:59:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-17 10:10:52 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 0.333 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 us20005j6x Id of event.
Event Code 20005j6x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005j6x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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