Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Lindsay in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Lindsay in Oklahoma. Global time and date of event 21/11/17 / 2017-11-21 14:04:40 / November 21, 2017 @ 2:04 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 08:04:40 / 8:04 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -97.6537 West, latitude 34.8673 North, depth = 5 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bsa6. Id of event: us2000bsa6.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Reno, Choctaw, Tecumseh (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Lawton (c. 96 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. 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: 5 km NW of Lindsay, Oklahoma.

Choctaw El Reno Lawton Lindsay Midwest City Moore Norman Oklahoma Oklahoma City Tecumseh United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.6537° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.8673° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km NW of Lindsay, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-11-21 14:04:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-11-21 14:16:24	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		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	150	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	0.44	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.35 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	101	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	us2000bsa6	Id of event.
Event Code	2000bsa6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000bsa6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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