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Minor earthquake, 3.04 mag has occurred near Helena in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.37820435S, -98.13944244WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.04 (ml/mb) was reported 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Helena in Oklahoma on Thursday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.475872874 km (1 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.13944244 West, latitude 36.37820435 North, depth = 1.475872874 km. The temblor was detected at 08:30:22 / 8:30 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ok2019xuqt. Unique identifier: ok2019xuqt. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/12/19 / 2019-12-05 14:30:22 / December 5, 2019 @ 2:30 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Perry, Watonga, Enid. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 23 km (15 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Perry (c. 5 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. 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: 22 km SSE of Helena, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.04 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.13944244° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.37820435° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.475872874 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km SSE of Helena, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-05 14:30:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-05 14:34:59 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 142 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 76 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1782945246 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7408516743 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50.93924618 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 ok2019xuqt Id of event.
Event Code 2019xuqt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ok2019xuqt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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