Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Cherokee in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:20:26 / 7:20 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005dl1. Id of event: us10005dl1. Global time and date of event 04/05/16 / 2016-05-04 12:20:26 / May 4, 2016 @ 12:20 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.1358 West, latitude 36.8556 North, depth = 5 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Blackwell, Enid (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 22 km ENE of Cherokee, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.1358° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.8556° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22km ENE 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	2016-05-04 12:20:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-04 12:34:00	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	0.079	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	93	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	us10005dl1	Id of event.
Event Code	10005dl1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10005dl1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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