Minor earthquake, 3.18 mag was detected near Dover in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.18 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Dover in Oklahoma. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.918545723 km (2 miles). The temblor was reported at 16:01:37 / 4:01 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -97.92854309° West, 36.01589966° North, depth 2.918545723 km. Id of earthquake: ok2025jkfq. Event ids that are associated: ok2025jkfq. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/05/25 / 2025-05-14 16:01:37 / May 14, 2025 @ 4:01 pm UTC/GMT.

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 Midwest City, Stillwater, Del City. Epicenter of the event was 71 km (44 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 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 seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 4 km NNW of Dover, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.18 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.92854309° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.01589966° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.918545723 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4 km NNW 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	2025-05-14 16:01:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-14 16:11:15	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	78	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.07819229364	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.4355492788 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	28.57806396	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	ok2025jkfq	Id of event.
Event Code	2025jkfq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2025jkfq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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