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Minor earthquake 3.6 mag, 16 km WNW of Pawnee, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.417S, -96.9619WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Pawnee in Oklahoma. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was detected at 13:52:16 / 1:52 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200062d7. Id of event: us200062d7. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/06/16 / 2016-06-06 18:52:16 / June 6, 2016 @ 6:52 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -96.9619 West, latitude 36.417 North, depth = 5 km.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Sand Springs (c. 18 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sand Springs, Enid, Guthrie (min 5000 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 two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days four hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 16 km WNW of Pawnee, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.9619° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.417° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km WNW of Pawnee, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-06 18:52:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-06 18:59:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.3 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 200 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 0.319 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 us200062d7 Id of event.
Event Code 200062d7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200062d7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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