Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near Helena in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Helena in Oklahoma on Friday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/07/15 / 2015-07-24 12:31:14 / July 24, 2015 @ 12:31 pm. The temblor was picked up at 07:31:14 / 7:31 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.3999 West, latitude 36.6066 North, depth = 11.35 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 11.35 km (7 miles). Event id: us20002zuc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002zuc.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Watonga, Enid. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 13 km WNW of Helena, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.3999° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.6066° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11.35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km WNW 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	2015-07-24 12:31:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-24 12:46:24	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	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	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	222	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	0.248	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.43 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	90	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	us20002zuc	Id of event.
Event Code	20002zuc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20002zuc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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