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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 14 km WSW of Watonga, Oklahoma

Posted by admin on February 18, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.8014S, -98.5665WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Watonga in Oklahoma. Event id: us2000d426. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000d426. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.5665 West, latitude 35.8014 North, depth = 2.4 km. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:44:49 / 10:44 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.4 km (1 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/02/18 / 2018-02-18 04:44:49 / February 18, 2018 @ 4:44 am.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Piedmont, El Reno, Clinton. Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from El Reno (c. 16 700 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Weatherford (c. 10 800 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Clinton (c. 9 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Piedmont (c. 5 700 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 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 five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km WSW of Watonga, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.5665° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8014° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km WSW of Watonga, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-18 04:44:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-18 04:56:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 0.184 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37 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 us2000d426 Id of event.
Event Code 2000d426 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d426, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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