Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Blackwell in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Blackwell in Oklahoma on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.3216 West, latitude 36.8871 North, depth = 7.801 km. Id of earthquake: us20006f7a. Event ids that are associated: us20006f7a. Global time and date of event 16/07/16 / 2016-07-16 16:21:44 / July 16, 2016 @ 4:21 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.801 km (5 miles). The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:21:44 / 11:21 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Haysville, Enid, Derby (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 9 km NNW of Blackwell, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.3216° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.8871° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.801 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km NNW 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	2016-07-16 16:21:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-15 13:42:17	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		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.34 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	132	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us20006f7a	Id of event.
Event Code	20006f7a	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20006f7a,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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