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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Pawnee in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.4383S, -96.897WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Pawnee in Oklahoma on Sunday. Exact location of event, longitude -96.897 West, latitude 36.4383 North, depth = 3.84 km. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:53:28 / 9:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 31/10/16 / 2016-10-31 02:53:28 / October 31, 2016 @ 2:53 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.84 km (2 miles). Unique identifier: us10007366. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007366.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Sand Springs (c. 18 900 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guthrie, Sand Springs, Arkansas City (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 13 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.897° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4383° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km 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 2016-10-31 02:53:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-31 03:06:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 0.007 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 35 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 us10007366 Id of event.
Event Code 10007366 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007366, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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