Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, Oklahoma kilometers (0 miles) from Oklahoma. Unique identifier: us100032mh. Ids that are associated to the event: us100032mh. The temblor was reported at 21:24:39 / 9:24 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.64 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -97.7937° West, 36.8157° North, depth 1.64 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/08/15 / 2015-08-15 21:24:39 / August 15, 2015 @ 9:24 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Perry, Arkansas City, Ponca City. Epicenter of the earthquake was 47 km (29 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days fifty-four and in the last 365 days six hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.7937° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.8157° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.64 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-08-15 21:24:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-15 21:34:20	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	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	0.063	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.46 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	36	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	us100032mh	Id of event.
Event Code	100032mh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100032mh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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