Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Wetumka in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Wetumka in Oklahoma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location, longitude -96.2053° West, latitude 35.0886° North, depth = 5 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/01/18 / 2018-01-19 04:44:49 / January 19, 2018 @ 4:44 am. The temblor was picked up at 22:44:49 / 10:44 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000cl1r. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000cl1r.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shawnee, Tecumseh, Okmulgee (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Shawnee (c. 29 900 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from McAlester (c. 18 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Ada (c. 16 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Okmulgee (c. 12 300 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Seminole (c. 7 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eighteen 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km SSE of Wetumka, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-96.2053° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.0886° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km SSE of Wetumka, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-01-19 04:44:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-01-19 05:00:17	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	0.789	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	165	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	us2000cl1r	Id of event.
Event Code	2000cl1r	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000cl1r,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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