Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Pawnee in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Pawnee in Oklahoma. The temblor was reported at 01:46:29 / 1:46 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.032 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us2000827b. Event ids that are associated: us2000827b. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/12/16 / 2016-12-18 07:46:29 / December 18, 2016 @ 7:46 am. Exact location of event, longitude -96.6661 West, latitude 36.305 North, depth = 3.032 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Bartlesville (c. 35 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Owasso (c. 28 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bartlesville, Blackwell, Collinsville.

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 12 km ESE of Pawnee, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-96.6661° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.305° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.032 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km ESE 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	2016-12-18 07:46:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-04 05:42:35	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	139	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	0.51 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	95	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	us2000827b	Id of event.
Event Code	2000827b	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000827b,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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