Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag has occurred near Stroud in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Stroud in Oklahoma. The epicenter was at a depth of 5.41 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/07/17 / 2017-07-14 14:17:50 / July 14, 2017 @ 2:17 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -96.6898 West, latitude 35.8619 North, depth = 5.41 km. The temblor was detected at 08:17:50 / 8:17 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us20009wbj. Unique identifier: us20009wbj.

Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Broken Arrow (c. 98 900 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Oklahoma City, The Village, Broken Arrow. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 12 km NNW of Stroud, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-96.6898° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.8619° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.41 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km 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	2017-07-14 14:17:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-07-14 15:16:40	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	53	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.77	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	237	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	0.1	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.46 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	47	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us20009wbj	Id of event.
Event Code	20009wbj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20009wbj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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