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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Cherokee in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on July 21, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.8375S, -98.2507WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:10:21 / 9:10 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us20002ysx. Ids that are associated to the event: us20002ysx. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/07/15 / 2015-07-21 02:10:21 / July 21, 2015 @ 2:10 am. Exact location of earthquake, -98.2507° West, 36.8375° North, depth 5 km.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid. The epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days five hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 13 km NE of Cherokee, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.2507° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.8375° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km NE of Cherokee, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-21 02:10:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-21 02:21:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 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 148 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 0.046 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us20002ysx Id of event.
Event Code 20002ysx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002ysx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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