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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Cherokee in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.8189S, -98.2208WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. The temblor was detected at 20:19:31 / 8:19 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/07/15 / 2015-07-22 01:19:31 / July 22, 2015 @ 1:19 am. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -98.2208° West, 36.8189° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002z4e. Id of event: us20002z4e. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 56 km (35 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Enid (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km ENE of Cherokee, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.2208° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.8189° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km ENE 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 2015-07-22 01:19:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-22 01:30:08 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 138 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 0.017 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 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 us20002z4e Id of event.
Event Code 20002z4e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002z4e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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