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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near McAlester in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on January 21, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.1225S, -95.8828WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 23 kilometers (14 miles) from McAlester in Oklahoma on Sunday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/01/18 / 2018-01-07 10:55:40 / January 7, 2018 @ 10:55 am. Exact location of earthquake, -95.8828° West, 35.1225° North, depth 5 km. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:55:40 / 4:55 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000c1qh. Id of event: us1000c1qh. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 23 km (15 miles) from McAlester (c. 18 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Okmulgee (c. 12 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Seminole (c. 7 500 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Henryetta (c. 5 900 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Holdenville (c. 5 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Seminole, Okmulgee, Holdenville.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. 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: 23 km NNW of McAlester, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -95.8828° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.1225° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km NNW of McAlester, 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 10:55:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-21 11:53:34 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 0.789 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 223 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000c1qh Id of event.
Event Code 1000c1qh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000c1qh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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