Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Thomas in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Thomas in Oklahoma. Exact location of event, longitude -98.5883 West, latitude 35.7666 North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was detected at 15:24:41 / 3:24 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/08/17 / 2017-08-27 21:24:41 / August 27, 2017 @ 9:24 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us2000acba. Event ids that are associated: us2000acba.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (50 miles) from Yukon (c. 22 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from El Reno (c. 16 700 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Weatherford (c. 10 800 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Clinton (c. 9 000 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Anadarko (c. 6 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Piedmont (c. 5 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Anadarko, Yukon, Piedmont (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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: 14 km E of Thomas, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.5883° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.7666° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km E of Thomas, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-08-27 21:24:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-08-27 21:37:48	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.99	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	190	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	0.313	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.48 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	105	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	us2000acba	Id of event.
Event Code	2000acba	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000acba,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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