Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Alva in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Alva in Oklahoma on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.42 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 21:09:37 / 9:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -98.8262° West, latitude 36.8842° North, depth = 10.42 km. Global time and date of event 08/06/17 / 2017-06-08 03:09:37 / June 8, 2017 @ 3:09 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20009l8s. Id of event: us20009l8s.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Woodward (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 16 km WNW of Alva, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.8262° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.8842° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.42 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km WNW of Alva, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-06-08 03:09:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-06-08 03:29:18	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	168	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	0.199	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.41 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	153	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	us20009l8s	Id of event.
Event Code	20009l8s	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20009l8s,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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