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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag strikes near Waukomis in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.2687S, -97.6202WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Waukomis in Oklahoma. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/01/19 / 2019-01-14 08:20:07 / January 14, 2019 @ 8:20 am. The temblor was picked up at 02:20:07 / 2:20 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -97.6202° West, 36.2687° North, depth 5 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Unique identifier: us2000j3nw. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000j3nw.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bethany, Cushing, Warr Acres. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (43 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Bethany (c. 19 100 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days ninety-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 25 km E of Waukomis, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.6202° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2687° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km E of Waukomis, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-14 08:20:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-14 08:41:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 21 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.15 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 207 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 0.241 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 29 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 us2000j3nw Id of event.
Event Code 2000j3nw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j3nw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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