Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag has occurred near Waukomis in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Waukomis in Oklahoma. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/07/15 / 2015-07-21 08:46:54 / July 21, 2015 @ 8:46 am. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:46:54 / 3:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -97.6093° West, 36.2915° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002yud. Id of event: us20002yud.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cushing, The Village, Piedmont (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from The Village (c. 8 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days sixty and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 25 km E of Waukomis, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.6093° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.2915° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25km E of Waukomis, 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 08:46:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-21 09:05:06	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	4.05	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	189	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	0.369	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.83 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	27	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	us20002yud	Id of event.
Event Code	20002yud	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20002yud,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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