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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Enid in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on January 26, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.3781S, -97.7116WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Enid in Oklahoma. Exact location of event, longitude -97.7116 West, latitude 36.3781 North, depth = 3.52 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 3.52 km (2 miles). Event id: us10007vhf. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007vhf. The temblor was picked up at 06:02:31 / 6:02 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/01/17 / 2017-01-26 12:02:31 / January 26, 2017 @ 12:02 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Edmond, Piedmont, Ponca City (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 83 km (52 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop).

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

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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: 15 km E of Enid, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.7116° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.3781° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km E of Enid, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-26 12:02:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-26 12:14:07 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 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 178 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 0.252 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 30 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 us10007vhf Id of event.
Event Code 10007vhf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007vhf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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