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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Luther in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on September 3, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.6663S, -97.1455WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Luther in Oklahoma. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.97 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006jv0. Id of event: us10006jv0. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/09/16 / 2016-09-03 02:39:52 / September 3, 2016 @ 2:39 am. Exact location of event, longitude -97.1455 West, latitude 35.6663 North, depth = 8.97 km. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:39:52 / 9:39 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Purcell, Blanchard, El Reno. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 4 km E of Luther, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.1455° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.6663° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km E of Luther, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-03 02:39:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-03 02:46:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 0.038 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 54 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 us10006jv0 Id of event.
Event Code 10006jv0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006jv0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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