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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Buffalo in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.9687S, -99.5115WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Buffalo in Oklahoma on Tuesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000a8he. Unique identifier: us2000a8he. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:05:09 / 11:05 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 15/08/17 / 2017-08-15 17:05:09 / August 15, 2017 @ 5:05 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -99.5115 West, latitude 36.9687 North, depth = 5 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 60 km (38 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Woodward (min 5000 pop).

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 three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 18 km NE of Buffalo, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -99.5115° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9687° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km NE of Buffalo, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-08-15 17:05:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-15 17:35:11 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 0.572 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us2000a8he Id of event.
Event Code 2000a8he An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a8he, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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