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Minor earthquake 3.5 mag, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.0393S, -97.1537WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, Oklahoma kilometers (0 miles) from Oklahoma. All ids that are associated to the event: us20009xry. Unique identifier: us20009xry. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.1537 West, latitude 36.0393 North, depth = 2.97 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/07/17 / 2017-07-19 00:20:05 / July 19, 2017 @ 12:20 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.97 km (2 miles). The temblor was reported at 00:20:05 / 12:20 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Moore, Shawnee, Yukon (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (44 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.1537° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.0393° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.97 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 2017-07-19 00:20:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-19 00:40:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 18 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.5 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.98 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 197 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 0.114 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 27 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 us20009xry Id of event.
Event Code 20009xry An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009xry, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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