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

Posted by admin on January 7, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.1336S, -97.7059WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Hennessey in Oklahoma. Exact location of event, longitude -97.7059 West, latitude 36.1336 North, depth = 3.54 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/01/18 / 2018-01-07 19:37:33 / January 7, 2018 @ 7:37 pm. Unique identifier: us1000c1st. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000c1st. The temblor was detected at 13:37:33 / 1:37 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.54 km (2 miles).

The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Yukon (c. 22 700 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Oklahoma City, Watonga, El Reno (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 one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each 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 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: 17 km E of Hennessey, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.7059° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1336° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km E 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 2018-01-07 19:37:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-07 19:48:42 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 0.393 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35 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 us1000c1st Id of event.
Event Code 1000c1st An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000c1st, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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