Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Enid in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Enid in Oklahoma on Saturday. Exact location, longitude -97.7626° West, latitude 36.5906° North, depth = 3.19 km. The temblor was detected at 21:43:47 / 9:43 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.19 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us10004x4x. Event ids that are associated: us10004x4x. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/03/16 / 2016-03-13 03:43:47 / March 13, 2016 @ 3:43 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 24 km (15 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Perry (c. 5 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ponca City, Perry, Blackwell (min 5000 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 thirteen, in the past 30 days fourty-nine and in the last 365 days seven hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 23 km NNE of Enid, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.7626° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5906° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.19 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23km NNE of Enid, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-03-13 03:43:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-13 03:54:27	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	158	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	0.197	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.35 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	40	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	us10004x4x	Id of event.
Event Code	10004x4x	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004x4x,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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