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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 12 km N of Stroud, Oklahoma

Posted by admin on October 5, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.8637S, -96.6823WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Stroud in Oklahoma. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:01:08 / 11:01 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10006vzx. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006vzx. Exact location of event, depth 5.947 km, -96.6823° West, 35.8637° North. Global time and date of event 05/10/16 / 2016-10-05 16:01:08 / October 5, 2016 @ 4:01 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.947 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Shawnee (c. 29 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Bixby (c. 20 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Edmond, Bixby, Perry (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-nine 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. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 12 km N of Stroud, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.6823° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8637° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.947 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km N of Stroud, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-05 16:01:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-05 21:09:16 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 138 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 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us10006vzx Id of event.
Event Code 10006vzx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006vzx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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