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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Hennessey in Oklahoma

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Hennessey in Oklahoma. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/10/17 / 2017-10-31 12:18:12 / October 31, 2017 @ 12:18 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.96 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:18:12 / 6:18 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000ayzw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000ayzw. Exact location of event, longitude -97.8954 West, latitude 36.0369 North, depth = 3.96 km.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Yukon (c. 22 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Del City, Stillwater, Mustang.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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. 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: 8 km S of Hennessey, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.8954° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.0369° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.96 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km S of Hennessey, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-10-31 12:18:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-31 12:24:58	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	139	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	0.187	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.49 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	39	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	us1000ayzw	Id of event.
Event Code	1000ayzw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000ayzw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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