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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Lindsay in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 34.6823S, -97.517WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Lindsay in Oklahoma. The temblor was detected at 03:39:36 / 3:39 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -97.517° West, 34.6823° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/02/18 / 2018-02-04 09:39:36 / February 4, 2018 @ 9:39 am. Id of earthquake: us1000cflq. Event ids that are associated: us1000cflq.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 60 km (38 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Lawton (c. 96 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Ardmore (c. 24 300 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Duncan (c. 23 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lawton, Mustang, Anadarko.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nineteen 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 18 km SSE of Lindsay, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.517° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.6823° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km SSE of Lindsay, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-04 09:39:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-04 09:46:43 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 0.668 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 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 us1000cflq Id of event.
Event Code 1000cflq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000cflq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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