Minor earthquake: M3.03 quake has struck near Knowles in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.03 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Knowles in Oklahoma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -100.2983017 West, latitude 36.94532394 North, depth = 5 km. Event id: ok2025wkpv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rnhw, ok2025wkpv. The 3.03-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:08:50 / 9:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/11/25 / 2025-11-15 21:08:50 / November 15, 2025 @ 9:08 pm UTC/GMT.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Perryton, Liberal (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 56 km (35 miles) from Liberal (c. 20 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Perryton (c. 8 800 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 12 km NW of Knowles, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.03 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-100.2983017° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.94532394° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12 km NW of Knowles, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-11-15 21:08:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-15 21:13:51	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	141	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	,us,ok,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3457820117	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.9933959671 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	162.1031036	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	ok2025wkpv	Id of event.
Event Code	2025wkpv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rnhw,ok2025wkpv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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