Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Pawnee in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Pawnee in Oklahoma on Wednesday. Id of earthquake: us10006v4p. Event ids that are associated: us10006v4p. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/10/16 / 2016-10-05 09:54:33 / October 5, 2016 @ 9:54 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 04:54:33 / 4:54 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.796 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -96.938 West, latitude 36.4065 North, depth = 5.796 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arkansas City, Guthrie, Blackwell. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 34 km (21 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Cushing (c. 7 800 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 14 km WNW of Pawnee, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-96.938° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4065° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.796 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km WNW 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	2016-10-05 09:54:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-11-03 10:28:51	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	0.21 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	49	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	us10006v4p	Id of event.
Event Code	10006v4p	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006v4p,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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