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Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 11 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.4034S, -96.9012WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Pawnee in Oklahoma. Event id: us10007p9h. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007p9h. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:25:34 / 9:25 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 02/01/17 / 2017-01-02 15:25:34 / January 2, 2017 @ 3:25 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -96.9012 West, latitude 36.4034 North, depth = 5 km.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Sand Springs (c. 18 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sand Springs, Guthrie, Arkansas City (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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: 11 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.9012° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4034° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km NW 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 2017-01-02 15:25:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-02 15:39:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 159 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 0.007 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 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 us10007p9h Id of event.
Event Code 10007p9h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007p9h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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