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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) has occurred on Sunday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Enid in Oklahoma. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/03/18 / 2018-03-05 03:40:58 / March 5, 2018 @ 3:40 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000dca2. Event ids that are associated: us2000dca2. Exact location of earthquake, -97.7368° West, 36.4818° North, depth 5 km. The temblor was picked up at 21:40:58 / 9:40 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wellington, Arkansas City, Stillwater. Event epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 15 km NE of Enid, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.7368° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4818° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km 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	2018-03-05 03:40:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-05 04:14:55	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	269	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.7	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.98	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	398	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	0.498	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.77 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	26	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us2000dca2	Id of event.
Event Code	2000dca2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000dca2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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