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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Kingfisher in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.9725S, -97.7941WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Kingfisher in Oklahoma. Event id: us1000d74k. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000d74k. Global time and date of event 21/03/18 / 2018-03-21 18:04:42 / March 21, 2018 @ 6:04 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -97.7941° West, latitude 35.9725° North, depth = 6.204 km. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:04:42 / 12:04 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.204 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Harrah, Tuttle, Moore.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 fourteen, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 17 km NE of Kingfisher, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.7941° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9725° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.204 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km NE of Kingfisher, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-21 18:04:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-16 14:27:49 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 138 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 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 33 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 us1000d74k Id of event.
Event Code 1000d74k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000d74k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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