Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 22 km ESE of Cherokee, Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.526 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 08:43:12 / 8:43 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10006abd. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006abd. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/08/16 / 2016-08-05 13:43:12 / August 5, 2016 @ 1:43 pm. Exact location, longitude -98.1088° West, latitude 36.7108° North, depth = 6.526 km.

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). Event epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop).

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

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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. 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: 22 km ESE of Cherokee, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.1088° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.7108° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.526 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22km ESE 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	2016-08-05 13:43:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-20 07:59:05	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	158	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	0.6 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	49	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	us10006abd	Id of event.
Event Code	10006abd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006abd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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