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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Helena in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.6286S, -98.3691WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Helena in Oklahoma on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 17:09:29 / 5:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -98.3691 West, latitude 36.6286 North, depth = 5 km. Global time and date of event 20/11/15 / 2015-11-20 23:09:29 / November 20, 2015 @ 11:09 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us10003zyv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003zyv.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Enid.

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

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 12 km NW of Helena, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.3691° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6286° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km NW of Helena, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-20 23:09:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-20 23:19:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 168 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 0.216 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 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 us10003zyv Id of event.
Event Code 10003zyv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003zyv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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