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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Cherokee in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on November 23, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.6264S, -98.4536WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100040i1. Id of event: us100040i1. The temblor was picked up at 12:31:01 / 12:31 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 23/11/15 / 2015-11-23 18:31:01 / November 23, 2015 @ 6:31 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location, longitude -98.4536° West, latitude 36.6264° North, depth = 5 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 57 km (36 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid.

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

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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: 16 km SSW of Cherokee, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.4536° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6264° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km SSW 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 2015-11-23 18:31:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-23 18:51:13 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 138 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 0.263 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 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 us100040i1 Id of event.
Event Code 100040i1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100040i1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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