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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Guthrie in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.9673S, -97.4052WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Guthrie in Oklahoma. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.41 km (1 miles). Id of earthquake: us10004h1l. Event ids that are associated: us10004h1l. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/01/16 / 2016-01-25 10:05:43 / January 25, 2016 @ 10:05 am. The temblor was detected at 04:05:43 / 4:05 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -97.4052° West, 35.9673° North, depth 2.41 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mustang, Moore, El Reno (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days five hundred and seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 9 km N of Guthrie, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.4052° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9673° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km N of Guthrie, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-25 10:05:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-25 10:30:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 139 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 0.175 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 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 us10004h1l Id of event.
Event Code 10004h1l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004h1l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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