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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Yale in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on August 24, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.0798S, -96.7672WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was reported 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Yale in Oklahoma on Wednesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/08/16 / 2016-08-24 10:08:56 / August 24, 2016 @ 10:08 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -96.7672° West, latitude 36.0798° North, depth = 5 km. Id of earthquake: us10006gau. Event ids that are associated: us10006gau. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 05:08:56 / 5:08 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Bixby (c. 20 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bixby, Edmond, Choctaw.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 7 km WSW of Yale, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.7672° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0798° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km WSW of Yale, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-24 10:08:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-24 10:21:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 179 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 0.103 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us10006gau Id of event.
Event Code 10006gau An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006gau, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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