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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 15 km SSW of McCord, Oklahoma

Posted by admin on May 21, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.5454S, -97.0785WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from McCord in Oklahoma on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.92 km (4 miles). The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:46:06 / 9:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 5.92 km, -97.0785° West, 36.5454° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005j4u. Id of event: us10005j4u. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/05/16 / 2016-05-21 14:46:06 / May 21, 2016 @ 2:46 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Winfield, Enid, Cushing. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 15 km SSW of McCord, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.0785° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5454° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km SSW of McCord, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-21 14:46:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-21 15:49:50 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 3.1 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 139 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 0.241 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us10005j4u Id of event.
Event Code 10005j4u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005j4u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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