Minor earthquake, 3.15 mag strikes near Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) was reported Oklahoma kilometers (0 miles) from Oklahoma on Friday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.277645588 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/03/21 / 2021-03-05 08:26:35 / March 5, 2021 @ 8:26 am. Id of earthquake: ok2021eltk. Event ids that are associated: ok2021eltk. The temblor was detected at 08:26:35 / 8:26 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -98.1771698 West, latitude 36.29514313 North, depth = 4.277645588 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Perry (c. 5 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). 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).

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

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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: Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.15 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.1771698° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.29514313° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.277645588 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2021-03-05 08:26:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-03-05 08:27:34	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	153	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	74	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.04228662327	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2773701213 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	27.38821125	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	ok2021eltk	Id of event.
Event Code	2021eltk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2021eltk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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