Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Hennessey in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Hennessey in Oklahoma on Friday. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.74 km (2 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/11/16 / 2016-11-04 23:06:45 / November 4, 2016 @ 11:06 pm. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:06:45 / 6:06 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000747r. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000747r. Exact location of event, longitude -97.6535 West, latitude 36.1486 North, depth = 2.74 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cushing, Midwest City, Del City.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days four hundred and sixty-four 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. 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. 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: 22 km ENE of Hennessey, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.6535° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.1486° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.74 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22km ENE of Hennessey, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-11-04 23:06:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-11-04 23:24:25	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	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	0.037	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.67 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	24	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	us1000747r	Id of event.
Event Code	1000747r	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000747r,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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