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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 7 km WSW of Tuttle, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.2685S, -97.8843WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Tuttle in Oklahoma on Thursday. The temblor was reported at 23:48:16 / 11:48 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.8 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us2000j8nq. Event ids that are associated: us2000j8nq. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/01/19 / 2019-01-25 05:48:16 / January 25, 2019 @ 5:48 am. Exact location of event, depth 6.8 km, -97.8843° West, 35.2685° North.

The epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Harrah, Choctaw, Edmond (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 7 km WSW of Tuttle, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.8843° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.2685° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km WSW 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 2019-01-25 05:48:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-16 09:06:30 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 3.4 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 0.11 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us2000j8nq Id of event.
Event Code 2000j8nq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j8nq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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