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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Oklahoma

Posted by admin on May 13, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.4619S, -98.7296WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported Oklahoma kilometers (0 miles) from Oklahoma on Saturday. Id of earthquake: us10008s4j. Event ids that are associated: us10008s4j. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.34 km (3 miles). Exact location, longitude -98.7296° West, latitude 36.4619° North, depth = 4.34 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/05/17 / 2017-05-13 08:32:37 / May 13, 2017 @ 8:32 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 08:32:37 / 8:32 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid, Watonga, Woodward (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.7296° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4619° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-13 08:32:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-13 08:48:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 271 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 0.019 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10008s4j Id of event.
Event Code 10008s4j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008s4j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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