Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Waukomis in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Waukomis in Oklahoma. The temblor was detected at 23:14:50 / 11:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.7469 West, latitude 36.3065 North, depth = 5 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100041ew. Id of event: us100041ew. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/11/15 / 2015-11-26 05:14:50 / November 26, 2015 @ 5:14 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Watonga, Edmond, Piedmont (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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 ENE of Waukomis, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.7469° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.3065° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km ENE of Waukomis, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-11-26 05:14:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-11-26 05:29:35	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	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	148	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	0.274	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.41 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	42	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	us100041ew	Id of event.
Event Code	100041ew	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100041ew,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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