Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Taloga in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Taloga in Oklahoma on Monday. The temblor was detected at 22:25:25 / 10:25 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20008v71. Event ids that are associated: us20008v71. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/03/17 / 2017-03-28 04:25:25 / March 28, 2017 @ 4:25 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.552 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, depth 5.552 km, -98.7321° West, 36.1239° North.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Clinton, Woodward, Weatherford (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Weatherford (c. 10 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Clinton (c. 9 000 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 22 km ENE of Taloga, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.7321° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.1239° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.552 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22km ENE of Taloga, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-03-28 04:25:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-04-26 04:43:11	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	138	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	0.7 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	88	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	us20008v71	Id of event.
Event Code	20008v71	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20008v71,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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