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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Enid in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.5114S, -97.8383WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Enid in Oklahoma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:51:14 / 10:51 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 06/08/15 / 2015-08-06 03:51:14 / August 6, 2015 @ 3:51 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.8383 West, latitude 36.5114 North, depth = 5 km. Event id: us10002z0q. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002z0q.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ponca City, Blackwell, Perry (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 13 km (8 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Perry (c. 5 100 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days fifty-six and in the last 365 days seven hundred and sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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 NNE of Enid, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.8383° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5114° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km NNE of Enid, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-06 03:51:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-06 04:04:20 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 0.117 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 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 us10002z0q Id of event.
Event Code 10002z0q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002z0q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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