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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Cherokee in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.9214S, -98.3126WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/03/18 / 2018-03-06 19:46:12 / March 6, 2018 @ 7:46 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000dd9j. Id of event: us2000dd9j. Exact location of event, longitude -98.3126 West, latitude 36.9214 North, depth = 5 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 13:46:12 / 1:46 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Pratt (c. 6 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wellington, Pratt, Enid.

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 fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 18 km NNE of Cherokee, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.3126° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.9214° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km NNE of Cherokee, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-06 19:46:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-06 20:03:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 20 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.83 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 265 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 0.266 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 us2000dd9j Id of event.
Event Code 2000dd9j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000dd9j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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