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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Stroud in Oklahoma

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A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Stroud in Oklahoma on Wednesday. The temblor was detected at 08:00:09 / 8:00 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20008trk. Event ids that are associated: us20008trk. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.36 km (2 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/03/17 / 2017-03-22 14:00:09 / March 22, 2017 @ 2:00 pm. Exact location, longitude -96.659° West, latitude 35.8519° North, depth = 3.36 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Holdenville, Oklahoma City, The Village. Epicenter of the event was 88 km (55 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Broken Arrow (c. 98 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km N of Stroud, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-96.659° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.8519° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.36 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km N of Stroud, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-03-22 14:00:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-22 14:13:06	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.89	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	247	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	0.126	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	65	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	us20008trk	Id of event.
Event Code	20008trk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20008trk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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