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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Watonga in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on March 5, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.9062S, -98.2613WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Watonga in Oklahoma on Sunday. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -98.2613° West, 35.9062° North. The temblor was picked up at 06:09:16 / 6:09 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/03/17 / 2017-03-05 12:09:16 / March 5, 2017 @ 12:09 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008748. Id of event: us10008748. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tuttle, Clinton, Edmond. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Yukon (c. 22 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Bethany (c. 19 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Mustang (c. 17 400 pop).

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 six, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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: 15 km ENE of Watonga, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.2613° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9062° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km ENE of Watonga, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-03-05 12:09:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-05 12:15:19 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 148 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 0.124 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108 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 us10008748 Id of event.
Event Code 10008748 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008748, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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