Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Pawnee in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Pawnee in Oklahoma. Unique identifier: us10007nwi. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007nwi. The temblor was reported at 10:05:11 / 10:05 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -96.89° West, 36.4489° North, depth 2.46 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.46 km (2 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/12/16 / 2016-12-31 16:05:11 / December 31, 2016 @ 4:05 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sand Springs, Arkansas City, Blackwell. Epicenter of the earthquake was 40 km (25 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Sand Springs (c. 18 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Cushing (c. 7 800 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 five, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 14 km NNW of Pawnee, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-96.89° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4489° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.46 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km NNW 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	2016-12-31 16:05:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-31 16:47:44	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	0.028	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	67	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	us10007nwi	Id of event.
Event Code	10007nwi	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007nwi,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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