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Minor earthquake, 3.69 mag has occurred near Blanchard in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.0936203S, -97.78892517WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.69 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Blanchard in Oklahoma. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/05/20 / 2020-05-02 00:50:10 / May 2, 2020 @ 12:50 am. Event id: ok2020ioza. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ok2020ioza. The temblor was reported at 18:50:10 / 6:50 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -97.78892517° West, 35.0936203° North, depth 0.07080531865 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 0.07080531865 km (0 miles).

The epicenter was 48 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), 68 km (42 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shawnee, Tecumseh, Lawton (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 12 km WSW of Blanchard, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.69 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.78892517° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.0936203° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.07080531865 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km 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 2020-05-02 00:50:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-02 00:55:00 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 4.3 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 210 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 103 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09432180226 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8025567685 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 17.8097229 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 ok2020ioza Id of event.
Event Code 2020ioza An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ok2020ioza, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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