Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Pawnee in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Pawnee in Oklahoma. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:06:02 / 1:06 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.23 km (1 miles). Global time and date of event 29/10/16 / 2016-10-29 06:06:02 / October 29, 2016 @ 6:06 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us100072x0. Ids that are associated to the event: us100072x0. Exact location, longitude -96.8914° West, latitude 36.3927° North, depth = 1.23 km.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Skiatook, Sand Springs, Arkansas City (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 34 km (21 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Sand Springs (c. 18 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop).

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 seven, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

Did you feel anything?

Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 9 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma.

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-96.8914° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.3927° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.23 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km 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	2016-10-29 06:06:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-29 06:25:55	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	2.7	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	168	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	0.013	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.21 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	58	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	us100072x0	Id of event.
Event Code	100072x0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100072x0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Pawnee in Oklahoma

Did you feel anything?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information