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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Hennessey in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.1228S, -97.8204WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Hennessey in Oklahoma on Tuesday. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:18:37 / 6:18 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -97.8204 West, latitude 36.1228 North, depth = 1.18 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.18 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000d5n0. Unique identifier: us2000d5n0. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/02/18 / 2018-02-21 00:18:37 / February 21, 2018 @ 12:18 am.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Oklahoma City, Bethany, Warr Acres (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Yukon (c. 22 700 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 six, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km ENE of Hennessey, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.8204° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1228° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km ENE 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 2018-02-21 00:18:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-21 00:30:46 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 158 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 0.403 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 27 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 us2000d5n0 Id of event.
Event Code 2000d5n0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d5n0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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