Minor earthquake 3.5 mag, 21 km ENE of Cherokee, Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.63 km (3 miles). Event id: us10005d8v. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005d8v. The temblor was reported at 00:45:33 / 12:45 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -98.148 West, latitude 36.8564 North, depth = 5.63 km. Global time and date of event 03/05/16 / 2016-05-03 05:45:33 / May 3, 2016 @ 5:45 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wellington, Blackwell, Enid (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.148° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.8564° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.63 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21km ENE 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	2016-05-03 05:45:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-03 06:12:25	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.02	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	189	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	0.072	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	30	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	us10005d8v	Id of event.
Event Code	10005d8v	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10005d8v,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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