Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Pawnee in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Pawnee in Oklahoma. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/02/16 / 2016-02-09 15:38:58 / February 9, 2016 @ 3:38 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -96.7477 West, latitude 36.2625 North, depth = 5 km. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:38:58 / 9:38 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us20004z14. Event ids that are associated: us20004z14.

Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Owasso (c. 28 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Sapulpa (c. 20 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Owasso, Blackwell, Jenks (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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 ten, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days four hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 9 km SSE of Pawnee, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-96.7477° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.2625° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km SSE of Pawnee, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-02-09 15:38:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-02-09 15:49:26	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	168	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	0.096	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.42 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	77	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	us20004z14	Id of event.
Event Code	20004z14	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20004z14,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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