Minor earthquake 3.72 mag, 22 km SSE of Helena, Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.72 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Helena in Oklahoma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.471878529 km (2 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/05/20 / 2020-05-24 14:53:59 / May 24, 2020 @ 2:53 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -98.14916992 West, latitude 36.36942291 North, depth = 3.471878529 km. Event id: ok2020kefy. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ok2020kefy. The 3.72-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:53:59 / 8:53 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guthrie, Perry, Watonga. Epicenter of the earthquake was 24 km (15 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Perry (c. 5 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty-two 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. 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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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.72 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.14916992° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.36942291° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.471878529 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	2020-05-24 14:53:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-24 14:58:51	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	2.2	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	213	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	78	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2886986434	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3253532718 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	67.19953156	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	ok2020kefy	Id of event.
Event Code	2020kefy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2020kefy,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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