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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.6684S, -98.7615WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, Oklahoma kilometers (0 miles) from Oklahoma. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000ez6e. Unique identifier: us1000ez6e. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.545 km (4 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/06/18 / 2018-06-22 23:38:20 / June 22, 2018 @ 11:38 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -98.7615 West, latitude 36.6684 North, depth = 6.545 km. The temblor was picked up at 23:38:20 / 11:38 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Woodward (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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: Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.7615° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6684° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.545 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-22 23:38:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-25 22:39:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us1000ez6e Id of event.
Event Code 1000ez6e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ez6e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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