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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Cherokee in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on November 19, 2015 3 Comments

Earthquake location 36.661S, -98.4612WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma on Thursday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/11/15 / 2015-11-19 07:42:12 / November 19, 2015 @ 7:42 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003zgz. Id of event: us10003zgz. Exact location of event, depth 6.23 km, -98.4612° West, 36.661° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.23 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 01:42:12 / 1:42 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Watonga, Woodward, Enid (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days five hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 13 km SW of Cherokee, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.4612° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.661° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km SW 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 2015-11-19 07:42:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-19 08:13:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 964 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.83 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 822 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 0.246 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10003zgz Id of event.
Event Code 10003zgz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003zgz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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  1. Zain

    I live in Andover Kansas and got woken up by a rumbling noise and then felt everything shaking. It lasted only for a few seconds but it left us a little scared.

    November 19, 2015
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  2. Margaret Holdeman

    At 1:42 a.m. CST 11/19/2015 in Lawrence, KS, felt 5 sec. minor earthquake (so did my Miniature Schnauzer). Just read about 4.7 earthquake near Enid, OK.

    November 19, 2015
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  3. Tiffany

    Felt in Partridge, KS

    November 19, 2015
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