Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Pawnee in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Pawnee in Oklahoma. Exact location of earthquake, -96.8186° West, 36.3358° North, depth 5 km. Event id: us20003lqz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003lqz. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/09/15 / 2015-09-19 05:44:27 / September 19, 2015 @ 5:44 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 00:44:27 / 12:44 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Sapulpa (c. 20 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Sand Springs (c. 18 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tulsa, Guthrie, Sapulpa (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 1 km W of Pawnee, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-96.8186° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.3358° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1km W of Pawnee, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-09-19 05:44:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-19 05:59:10	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	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	139	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	0.186	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.34 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	63	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	us20003lqz	Id of event.
Event Code	20003lqz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20003lqz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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