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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Chickasha in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on September 13, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.024S, -97.8762WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Chickasha in Oklahoma on Tuesday. Id of earthquake: us10006p8w. Event ids that are associated: us10006p8w. The temblor was reported at 07:16:25 / 7:16 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.8762 West, latitude 35.024 North, depth = 4.3 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/09/16 / 2016-09-13 12:16:25 / September 13, 2016 @ 12:16 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.3 km (3 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Edmond, Choctaw, Piedmont. Event epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Lawton (c. 96 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 6 km ESE of Chickasha, 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 -97.8762° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.024° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km ESE of Chickasha, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-13 12:16:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-13 21:25:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 150 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 0.253 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 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 us10006p8w Id of event.
Event Code 10006p8w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006p8w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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