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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Enid in Oklahoma

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Enid in Oklahoma on Sunday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/03/18 / 2018-03-04 23:17:17 / March 4, 2018 @ 11:17 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -97.7091 West, latitude 36.4895 North, depth = 5.7 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000dc7w. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000dc7w. The temblor was detected at 17:17:17 / 5:17 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.7 km (4 miles).

Event epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wellington, Arkansas City, Guthrie (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 18 km NE of Enid, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.7091° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4895° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18km NE of Enid, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-03-04 23:17:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-04 23:36:53	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	443	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5.3	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.92	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	506	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	0.509	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.84 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	20	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us2000dc7w	Id of event.
Event Code	2000dc7w	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000dc7w,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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