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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag has occurred near Enid in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.576S, -97.8279WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Enid in Oklahoma on Sunday. Unique identifier: us20005cnc. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005cnc. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:01:46 / 1:01 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.24 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/03/16 / 2016-03-27 06:01:46 / March 27, 2016 @ 6:01 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -97.8279° West, 36.576° North, depth 4.24 km.

Epicenter of the event was 21 km (13 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Perry (c. 5 100 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ponca City, Perry, Blackwell (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days six hundred and sixty-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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 20 km NNE of Enid, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.8279° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.576° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km 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 2016-03-27 06:01:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-27 06:14:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.17 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 200 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 0.144 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 25 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 us20005cnc Id of event.
Event Code 20005cnc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005cnc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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