Minor earthquake: M3.05 quake has struck near Dover in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.05 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Dover in Oklahoma on Sunday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/09/20 / 2020-09-27 02:20:00 / September 27, 2020 @ 2:20 am. The temblor was detected at 02:20:00 / 2:20 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.623091578 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 1.623091578 km, -97.75897217° West, 35.95954895° North. Unique identifier: ok2020szml. Ids that are associated to the event: ok2020szml.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Harrah, Tuttle, Moore (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop).

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

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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. 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: 13 km E of Dover, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.05 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.75897217° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.95954895° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.623091578 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13 km E of Dover, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-09-27 02:20:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-09-27 02:25:46	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	143	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	91	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1799149513	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6389109541 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	23.88723755	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	ok2020szml	Id of event.
Event Code	2020szml	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2020szml,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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