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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Cherokee in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on December 2, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.8123S, -98.2709WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma on Wednesday. The temblor was picked up at 13:40:30 / 1:40 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.2709 West, latitude 36.8123 North, depth = 5 km. Event id: us100042sp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100042sp. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/12/15 / 2015-12-02 19:40:30 / December 2, 2015 @ 7:40 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days fifty-nine and in the last 365 days five hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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 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: 9 km NE of Cherokee, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.2709° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.8123° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km NE 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 2015-12-02 19:40:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-02 19:51:18 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 178 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 0.049 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us100042sp Id of event.
Event Code 100042sp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100042sp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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