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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Stroud in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.8646S, -96.6894WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Stroud in Oklahoma on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/10/16 / 2016-10-04 13:10:44 / October 4, 2016 @ 1:10 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 9.5 km (6 miles). The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:10:44 / 8:10 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10006uy6. Event ids that are associated: us10006uy6. Exact location of event, longitude -96.6894 West, latitude 35.8646 North, depth = 9.5 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Henryetta, Midwest City, Edmond. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Shawnee (c. 29 900 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 six, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 13 km NNW of Stroud, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.6894° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8646° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km NNW of Stroud, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-04 13:10:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-04 13:26:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 149 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 0.111 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us10006uy6 Id of event.
Event Code 10006uy6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006uy6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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