Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Luther in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Luther in Oklahoma on Wednesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/03/18 / 2018-03-01 05:10:47 / March 1, 2018 @ 5:10 am. Unique identifier: us2000d9jj. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000d9jj. The temblor was picked up at 23:10:47 / 11:10 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.52 km (4 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.3159 West, latitude 35.6871 North, depth = 6.52 km.

Epicenter of the event was 30 km (19 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Seminole, Purcell, Blanchard (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km WNW of Luther, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.3159° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.6871° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.52 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km WNW of Luther, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-03-01 05:10:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-01 05:30:55	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	14	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	174	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	0.056	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.33 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	27	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	us2000d9jj	Id of event.
Event Code	2000d9jj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000d9jj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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