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Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 6 km ESE of Guthrie, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.856S, -97.355WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Guthrie in Oklahoma. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/10/15 / 2015-10-30 11:37:06 / October 30, 2015 @ 11:37 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.8 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:37:06 / 6:37 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200040pl. Id of event: us200040pl. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.355 West, latitude 35.856 North, depth = 5.8 km.

Event epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Noble, Tecumseh, Enid (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 three, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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: 6 km ESE of Guthrie, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.355° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.856° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km ESE 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 2015-10-30 11:37:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-01 22:46:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us200040pl Id of event.
Event Code 200040pl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200040pl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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