Minor earthquake, 3.32 mag has occurred near Fairview in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.32 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/09/19 / 2019-09-27 14:51:00 / September 27, 2019 @ 2:51 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ok2019syps. Id of event: ok2019syps. The epicenter was at a depth of 3.91383481 km (2 miles). Exact location, longitude -98.74050903° West, latitude 36.47728348° North, depth = 3.91383481 km. The temblor was detected at 08:51:00 / 8:51 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Enid, Watonga, Woodward.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 32 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.32 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.74050903° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.47728348° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.91383481 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-09-27 14:51:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-09-27 14:52:20	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	170	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	50	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03370478377	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3724701538 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	71.52432632	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	ok2019syps	Id of event.
Event Code	2019syps	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2019syps,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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