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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Cherokee in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.703S, -98.3282WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma on Wednesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/09/15 / 2015-09-30 08:28:18 / September 30, 2015 @ 8:28 am. The temblor was picked up at 03:28:18 / 3:28 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -98.3282° West, latitude 36.703° North, depth = 8.22 km. Unique identifier: us10003j29. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003j29. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.22 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid. Earthquake epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days five hundred and thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km SSE of Cherokee, Oklahoma. This information 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 -98.3282° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.703° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km SSE of Cherokee, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-30 08:28:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-30 09:05:53 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 2 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 0.138 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 us10003j29 Id of event.
Event Code 10003j29 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003j29, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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