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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 12 km SSE of Blanchard, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.0272S, -97.623WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Blanchard in Oklahoma. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.2 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000hu0b. Unique identifier: us1000hu0b. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/11/18 / 2018-11-19 18:12:55 / November 19, 2018 @ 6:12 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.623 West, latitude 35.0272 North, depth = 9.2 km. The temblor was reported at 12:12:55 / 12:12 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shawnee, Edmond, Piedmont (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 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 three and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 12 km SSE of Blanchard, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.623° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.0272° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km SSE of Blanchard, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-19 18:12:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-19 19:16:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 140 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 0.095 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 42 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 us1000hu0b Id of event.
Event Code 1000hu0b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hu0b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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