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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Hennessey in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.0344S, -97.906WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Hennessey in Oklahoma. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/11/17 / 2017-11-04 18:17:16 / November 4, 2017 @ 6:17 pm. The temblor was reported at 12:17:16 / 12:17 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000bjv4. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000bjv4. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.671 km (5 miles). Exact location, longitude -97.906° West, latitude 36.0344° North, depth = 7.671 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Midwest City, Del City, Stillwater. Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop).

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

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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. 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: 8 km S of Hennessey, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.906° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0344° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.671 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km S of Hennessey, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-11-04 18:17:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-07 17:37:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.8 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 168 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 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 23 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000bjv4 Id of event.
Event Code 2000bjv4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bjv4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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