Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Buffalo in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Buffalo in Oklahoma. Exact location, longitude -99.3917° West, latitude 36.9608° North, depth = 6.53 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.53 km (4 miles). Global time and date of event 25/10/17 / 2017-10-25 01:50:54 / October 25, 2017 @ 1:50 am UTC/GMT. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:50:54 / 7:50 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000awir. Unique identifier: us1000awir.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Woodward. The epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Every 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 one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 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: 25 km ENE of Buffalo, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-99.3917° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.9608° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.53 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25km ENE of Buffalo, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-10-25 01:50:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-25 01:59:35	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	0.492	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.55 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	37	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	us1000awir	Id of event.
Event Code	1000awir	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000awir,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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