Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Luther in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Luther in Oklahoma on Thursday. The temblor was reported at 02:37:54 / 2:37 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/04/16 / 2016-04-07 07:37:54 / April 7, 2016 @ 7:37 am. Exact location of earthquake, -97.2061° West, 35.6908° North, depth 7.63 km. Id of earthquake: us20005g1b. Event ids that are associated: us20005g1b. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.63 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Purcell, Blanchard, Seminole (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

Did you feel the quake?

Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 3 km NNW of Luther, Oklahoma.

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.2061° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.6908° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.63 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km NNW of Luther, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-04-07 07:37:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-07 07:47:57	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	148	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	0.153	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.63 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	60	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	us20005g1b	Id of event.
Event Code	20005g1b	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005g1b,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Luther in Oklahoma

Did you feel the quake?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information