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Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Enid in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on November 26, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.3224S, -97.7379WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Enid in Oklahoma. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Unique identifier: us100041es. Ids that are associated to the event: us100041es. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/11/15 / 2015-11-26 05:06:36 / November 26, 2015 @ 5:06 am. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -97.7379° West, 36.3224° North. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:06:36 / 11:06 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Edmond, Piedmont, Ponca City. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (48 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twenty-six, in the past 30 days sixty-nine and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every 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.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 14 km ESE of Enid, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.7379° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.3224° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km ESE of Enid, 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 05:06:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-26 05:15:11 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 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 0.268 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us100041es Id of event.
Event Code 100041es An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100041es, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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