Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Cherokee in Oklahoma

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. Global time and date of event 09/06/18 / 2018-06-09 13:59:41 / June 9, 2018 @ 1:59 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location, longitude -98.0584° West, latitude 36.7589° North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was picked up at 07:59:41 / 7:59 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000em4c. Unique identifier: us1000em4c. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ponca City, Perry, Wellington (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 43 km (27 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Perry (c. 5 100 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 26 km E of Cherokee, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.0584° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.7589° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26km E 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	2018-06-09 13:59:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-06-09 14:34:59	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	540	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5.8	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	5.66	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	625	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	0.14 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	78	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	us1000em4c	Id of event.
Event Code	1000em4c	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000em4c,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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