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Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Pawnee in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.4326S, -96.9977WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Pawnee in Oklahoma on Sunday. Unique identifier: us10007ust. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007ust. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was detected at 02:21:00 / 2:21 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -96.9977 West, latitude 36.4326 North, depth = 5 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/01/17 / 2017-01-22 08:21:00 / January 22, 2017 @ 8:21 am UTC/GMT.

The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid, Guthrie, Arkansas City (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 20 km WNW of Pawnee, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.9977° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4326° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km 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 2017-01-22 08:21:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-22 08:31:18 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 148 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 0.038 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us10007ust Id of event.
Event Code 10007ust An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007ust, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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