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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Cherokee in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on March 16, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.8242S, -98.2728WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/03/16 / 2016-03-16 05:31:28 / March 16, 2016 @ 5:31 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.6 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us20005a41. Event ids that are associated: us20005a41. Exact location of earthquake, -98.2728° West, 36.8242° North, depth 6.6 km. The temblor was detected at 00:31:28 / 12:31 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 twelve, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days five hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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. 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: 10 km NE of Cherokee, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.2728° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.8242° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km NE of Cherokee, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-16 05:31:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-16 05:42:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 0.054 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 us20005a41 Id of event.
Event Code 20005a41 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005a41, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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