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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Blanchard in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on July 12, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.0898S, -97.5926WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Blanchard in Oklahoma. The temblor was detected at 21:08:20 / 9:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -97.5926 West, latitude 35.0898 North, depth = 3.31 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/07/16 / 2016-07-12 02:08:20 / July 12, 2016 @ 2:08 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.31 km (2 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100062t7. Id of event: us100062t7.

The epicenter was 43 km (26 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Duncan, Shawnee, Edmond. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each 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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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. 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: 8 km SE of Blanchard, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5926° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.0898° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km SE of Blanchard, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-12 02:08:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-12 02:27:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 17 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.2 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 153 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 0.229 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 33 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 us100062t7 Id of event.
Event Code 100062t7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100062t7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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