Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Yale in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Yale in Oklahoma on Thursday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.33 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us20005kdj. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005kdj. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:00:56 / 2:00 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 21/04/16 / 2016-04-21 07:00:56 / April 21, 2016 @ 7:00 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -96.7347 West, latitude 36.1007 North, depth = 6.33 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bixby, Harrah, Ponca City (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Bixby (c. 20 900 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Sapulpa (c. 20 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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 WSW of Yale, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-96.7347° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.1007° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.33 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km WSW of Yale, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-04-21 07:00:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-21 07:20:36	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	0.073	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.66 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	47	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	us20005kdj	Id of event.
Event Code	20005kdj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005kdj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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