Minor earthquake, 3.18 mag strikes near Blanchard in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.18 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Blanchard in Oklahoma on Thursday. Event id: ok2020fnel. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ok2020fnel. The 3.18-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:42:03 / 2:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.78826904 West, latitude 35.08796692 North, depth = 2.37933135 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.37933135 km (1 miles). Global time and date of event 19/03/20 / 2020-03-19 08:42:03 / March 19, 2020 @ 8:42 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 49 km (30 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Lawton (c. 96 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tecumseh, Lawton, Harrah (min 5000 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 13 km WSW of Blanchard, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.18 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.78826904° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.08796692° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.37933135 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km WSW of Blanchard, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-03-19 08:42:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-03-19 08:45:43	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	156	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	71	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.09990148991	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.7905891582 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	35.62826538	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	ok2020fnel	Id of event.
Event Code	2020fnel	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2020fnel,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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