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Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 15 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.4197S, -96.941WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Pawnee in Oklahoma on Thursday. Unique identifier: us10006ja4. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006ja4. Global time and date of event 01/09/16 / 2016-09-01 11:46:34 / September 1, 2016 @ 11:46 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -96.941 West, latitude 36.4197 North, depth = 5 km. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:46:34 / 6:46 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guthrie, Arkansas City, Blackwell. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Cushing (c. 7 800 pop).

Every 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 15 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.941° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4197° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-01 11:46:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-01 12:01:27 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 0.285 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us10006ja4 Id of event.
Event Code 10006ja4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006ja4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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