Minor earthquake, 3.17 mag strikes near Union City in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.17 (ml/mb) was reported 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Union City in Oklahoma on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: ok2025zguo. Ids that are associated to the event: ok2025zguo. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/12/25 / 2025-12-26 11:36:25 / December 26, 2025 @ 11:36 am. Exact location of event, longitude -98.15068817 West, latitude 35.39544296 North, depth = 5 km. The 3.17-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:36:25 / 11:36 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Clinton, Noble, Midwest City (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 19 km W of Union City, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.17 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.15068817° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.39544296° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19 km W of Union City, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-12-26 11:36:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-26 11:37:34	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	155	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	62	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1020752192	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3976042243 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	59.98614502	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	ok2025zguo	Id of event.
Event Code	2025zguo	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2025zguo,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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