Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Blackwell in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Blackwell in Oklahoma on Monday. The temblor was reported at 08:44:53 / 8:44 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.17 km (2 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005d0h. Id of event: us10005d0h. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/05/16 / 2016-05-02 13:44:53 / May 2, 2016 @ 1:44 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -97.3777° West, 36.8727° North, depth 3.17 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 69 km (43 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Haysville, Derby, Enid (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 11 km NW of Blackwell, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.3777° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.8727° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.17 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km NW of Blackwell, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-05-02 13:44:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-02 13:59:19	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	3.4	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	0.161	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.4 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	71	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	us10005d0h	Id of event.
Event Code	10005d0h	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10005d0h,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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