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Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Mooreland in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.5319S, -98.9705WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Mooreland in Oklahoma on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/05/17 / 2017-05-24 03:47:34 / May 24, 2017 @ 3:47 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -98.9705 West, latitude 36.5319 North, depth = 7.204 km. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:47:34 / 9:47 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.204 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us10008us0. Event ids that are associated: us10008us0.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Woodward (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 23 km ENE of Mooreland, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.9705° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5319° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.204 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km ENE of Mooreland, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-24 03:47:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-17 21:17:25 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us10008us0 Id of event.
Event Code 10008us0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008us0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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