Minor earthquake, 3.07 mag strikes near Minco in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.07 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Minco in Oklahoma. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -97.91861725° West, 35.33149719° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ok2025simm. Id of event: ok2025simm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 19:02:39 / 7:02 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 18/09/25 / 2025-09-18 19:02:39 / September 18, 2025 @ 7:02 pm UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 39 km (25 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). 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, Weatherford, Watonga.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 four and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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: 3 km NE of Minco, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.07 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.91861725° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.33149719° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3 km NE of Minco, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-09-18 19:02:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-18 19:03:59	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	145	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	71	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.05887607485	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.453307021 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	28.4631958	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	ok2025simm	Id of event.
Event Code	2025simm	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2025simm,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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