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Minor earthquake 3.6 mag, 16 km NE of Helena, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.6565S, -98.1488WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Helena in Oklahoma. Exact location, longitude -98.1488° West, latitude 36.6565° North, depth = 5 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002m68. Id of event: us10002m68. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:35:19 / 8:35 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/06/15 / 2015-06-28 01:35:19 / June 28, 2015 @ 1:35 am.

Earthquake epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Blackwell, Enid. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fourty-three and in the last 365 days five hundred and ninety-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 16 km NE of Helena, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.1488° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6565° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km NE of Helena, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-06-28 01:35:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-06-28 01:46:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.16 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 reviewed 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 200 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.155 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10002m68 Id of event.
Event Code 10002m68 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002m68, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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