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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Tuttle in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.2178S, -97.7414WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Tuttle in Oklahoma. Id of earthquake: us2000i6u3. Event ids that are associated: us2000i6u3. Exact location of earthquake, -97.7414° West, 35.2178° North, depth 5 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Global time and date of event 05/11/18 / 2018-11-05 00:53:56 / November 5, 2018 @ 12:53 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 18:53:56 / 6:53 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guthrie, Shawnee, Tecumseh (min 5000 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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: 10 km SE of Tuttle, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.7414° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.2178° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km SE of Tuttle, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-05 00:53:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-05 01:18:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 49 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 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 170 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 0.14 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 us2000i6u3 Id of event.
Event Code 2000i6u3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000i6u3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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