Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Pawnee in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Pawnee in Oklahoma. Global time and date of event 28/10/16 / 2016-10-28 18:24:54 / October 28, 2016 @ 6:24 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -96.8954 West, latitude 36.4482 North, depth = 6.57 km. The temblor was detected at 13:24:54 / 1:24 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us100072rr. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100072rr. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.57 km (4 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 40 km (25 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Sand Springs (c. 18 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guthrie, Sand Springs, Arkansas City. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 three hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 14 km NNW of Pawnee, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-96.8954° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4482° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.57 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km NNW 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	2016-10-28 18:24:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-28 19:03:10	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	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	0.015	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.41 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	28	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	us100072rr	Id of event.
Event Code	100072rr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100072rr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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