Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Helena in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Helena in Oklahoma on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.42 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:12:01 / 5:12 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004g14. Id of event: us20004g14. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.3209 West, latitude 36.5758 North, depth = 2.42 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/12/15 / 2015-12-09 23:12:01 / December 9, 2015 @ 11:12 pm.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid. Earthquake epicenter was 44 km (28 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop).

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 sixteen, in the past 30 days fifty-four and in the last 365 days five hundred and eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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 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: 5 km NW of Helena, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.3209° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5758° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.42 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km 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	2015-12-09 23:12:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-09 23:23:38	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	0.244	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.5 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	83	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	us20004g14	Id of event.
Event Code	20004g14	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20004g14,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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