Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Enid in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Enid in Oklahoma on Saturday. The temblor was reported at 14:12:33 / 2:12 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 17.36 km, -97.81° West, 36.6036° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 17.36 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000a57v. Id of event: us2000a57v. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/08/17 / 2017-08-05 20:12:33 / August 5, 2017 @ 8:12 pm.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Perry (c. 5 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ponca City, Perry, Blackwell (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 23 km NNE of Enid, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.81° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.6036° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	17.36 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23km NNE of Enid, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-08-05 20:12:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-08-05 20:59:46	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	0.171	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	39	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	us2000a57v	Id of event.
Event Code	2000a57v	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000a57v,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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