Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Fairview in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Fairview in Oklahoma. The temblor was reported at 07:15:15 / 7:15 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10008rul. Unique identifier: us10008rul. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/05/17 / 2017-05-12 13:15:15 / May 12, 2017 @ 1:15 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.3 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, depth 4.3 km, -98.7673° West, 36.4763° North.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid, Watonga, Woodward. Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 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: 34 km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.7673° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4763° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	34km NW of Fairview, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-05-12 13:15:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-05-12 13:40:53	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	0.02	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.5 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	52	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	us10008rul	Id of event.
Event Code	10008rul	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10008rul,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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