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Minor earthquake 3.1 mag, 7 km S of Hennessey, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.0387S, -97.8981WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Hennessey in Oklahoma. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/02/18 / 2018-02-13 03:34:36 / February 13, 2018 @ 3:34 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.79 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:34:36 / 9:34 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -97.8981° West, 36.0387° North, depth 8.79 km. Id of earthquake: us2000d1ad. Event ids that are associated: us2000d1ad.

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. The epicenter 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), 76 km (47 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. 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 five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 7 km S of Hennessey, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.8981° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0387° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km 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 2018-02-13 03:34:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-13 03:44:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 0.352 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 31 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 us2000d1ad Id of event.
Event Code 2000d1ad An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d1ad, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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