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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Oklahoma

Posted by admin on July 18, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.8749S, -96.6953WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported Oklahoma kilometers (0 miles) from Oklahoma on Tuesday. Global time and date of event 18/07/17 / 2017-07-18 21:59:52 / July 18, 2017 @ 9:59 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.95 km (3 miles). Unique identifier: us20009xqw. Ids that are associated to the event: us20009xqw. Exact location of event, depth 4.95 km, -96.6953° West, 35.8749° North. The temblor was picked up at 21:59:52 / 9:59 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Edmond, Bixby, Seminole. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 70 km (44 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Shawnee (c. 29 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Bixby (c. 20 900 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.6953° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8749° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.95 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 2017-07-18 21:59:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-18 22:21:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 8 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 141 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 0.089 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 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 us20009xqw Id of event.
Event Code 20009xqw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009xqw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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