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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag was detected near Pawnee in Oklahoma

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Pawnee in Oklahoma. Unique identifier: us10007pbb. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007pbb. Exact location of event, longitude -96.9165 West, latitude 36.4055 North, depth = 5 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/01/17 / 2017-01-02 19:44:23 / January 2, 2017 @ 7:44 pm. The temblor was picked up at 13:44:23 / 1:44 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid, Sapulpa, Skiatook (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 86 km (53 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Sapulpa (c. 20 500 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Sand Springs (c. 18 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 12 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-96.9165° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4055° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km 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	2017-01-02 19:44:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-02 19:55:57	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	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	4.21	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	211	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	0.011	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.56 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	27	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	us10007pbb	Id of event.
Event Code	10007pbb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007pbb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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