Minor earthquake, 3.17 mag has occurred near Pawnee in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.17 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Pawnee in Oklahoma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.495117426 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: ok2019rryu. Ids that are associated to the event: ok2019rryu. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/09/19 / 2019-09-09 17:57:07 / September 9, 2019 @ 5:57 pm. Exact location, longitude -96.90930939° West, latitude 36.4249649° North, depth = 2.495117426 km. The temblor was reported at 11:57:07 / 11:57 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 37 km (23 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Sand Springs (c. 18 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sand Springs, Guthrie, Arkansas City.

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

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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. 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: 13 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.17 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-96.90930939° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4249649° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.495117426 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-09-09 17:57:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-09-09 17:58:27	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	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	automatic	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	155	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	ok	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,ok,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	59	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.07009507716	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.4930814734 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	80.45043182	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	ok2019rryu	Id of event.
Event Code	2019rryu	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2019rryu,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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