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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Guthrie in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.7751S, -97.3714WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Guthrie in Oklahoma. Id of earthquake: us20003j0x. Event ids that are associated: us20003j0x. The temblor was picked up at 08:47:08 / 8:47 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.3714 West, latitude 35.7751 North, depth = 5 km. Global time and date of event 12/09/15 / 2015-09-12 13:47:08 / September 12, 2015 @ 1:47 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Blanchard, Noble, Tecumseh (min 5000 pop).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 12 km SSE of Guthrie, Oklahoma. This data 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 -97.3714° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.7751° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km SSE of Guthrie, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-12 13:47:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-12 14:07:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 10 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3 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 141 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 0.071 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 us20003j0x Id of event.
Event Code 20003j0x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003j0x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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