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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Helena in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on December 24, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.4669S, -98.4532WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Helena in Oklahoma. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:40:37 / 10:40 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000497i. Event ids that are associated: us1000497i. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/12/15 / 2015-12-24 04:40:37 / December 24, 2015 @ 4:40 am. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -98.4532° West, 36.4669° North.

Earthquake epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Watonga, Enid. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days five hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 18 km WSW of Helena, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.4532° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4669° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km WSW 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 2015-12-24 04:40:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-24 04:47:43 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 0.317 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 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 us1000497i Id of event.
Event Code 1000497i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000497i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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