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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag has occurred near Waukomis in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.3336S, -97.9091WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Waukomis in Oklahoma. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/12/16 / 2016-12-10 08:07:01 / December 10, 2016 @ 8:07 am. Exact location of earthquake, -97.9091° West, 36.3336° North, depth 5 km. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:07:01 / 2:07 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us20007zrj. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007zrj. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 85 km (53 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 7 km (5 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Edmond, Ponca City, Stillwater (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km N of Waukomis, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.9091° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.3336° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km N of Waukomis, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-10 08:07:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-10 08:28:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 35 The total number of felt reports
CDI 6.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.31 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 232 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 0.181 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 59 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 us20007zrj Id of event.
Event Code 20007zrj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007zrj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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