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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Pawnee in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.4627S, -96.8629WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Pawnee in Oklahoma. Event id: us2000duvg. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000duvg. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/04/18 / 2018-04-05 08:51:40 / April 5, 2018 @ 8:51 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 5.15 km (3 miles). The temblor was reported at 02:51:40 / 2:51 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -96.8629 West, latitude 36.4627 North, depth = 5.15 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Skiatook, Sand Springs, Arkansas City. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 42 km (26 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Sand Springs (c. 18 900 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Cushing (c. 7 800 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 14 km NNW of Pawnee, Oklahoma. This data 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 -96.8629° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4627° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km NNW of Pawnee, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-05 08:51:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-05 09:00:03 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 2 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 0.08 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 64 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 us2000duvg Id of event.
Event Code 2000duvg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000duvg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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