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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Helena in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.5257S, -98.4315WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Helena in Oklahoma. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/08/15 / 2015-08-19 23:13:47 / August 19, 2015 @ 11:13 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100033j5. Id of event: us100033j5. The epicenter was at a depth of 1.68 km (1 miles). The temblor was picked up at 18:13:47 / 6:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -98.4315° West, latitude 36.5257° North, depth = 1.68 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Watonga, Enid. Earthquake epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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 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: 14 km W of Helena, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.4315° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5257° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km W 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 2015-08-19 23:13:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-19 23:26:00 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 158 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 0.329 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us100033j5 Id of event.
Event Code 100033j5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100033j5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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