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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Tonkawa in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.5019S, -97.2307WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Tonkawa in Oklahoma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.59 km (5 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.2307 West, latitude 36.5019 North, depth = 7.59 km. Event id: us10006e6d. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006e6d. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:48:26 / 12:48 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/08/16 / 2016-08-16 17:48:26 / August 16, 2016 @ 5:48 pm.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 59 km (37 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guthrie, Cushing, Arkansas City (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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 respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 20 km SSE of Tonkawa, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.2307° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5019° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km SSE of Tonkawa, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-16 17:48:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-16 18:02:40 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 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 0.241 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 us10006e6d Id of event.
Event Code 10006e6d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006e6d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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