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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Wilson in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 34.0626S, -97.4331WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Wilson in Oklahoma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Event id: us1000h300. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000h300. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/09/18 / 2018-09-26 21:47:48 / September 26, 2018 @ 9:47 pm. The temblor was detected at 15:47:48 / 3:47 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -97.4331° West, latitude 34.0626° North, depth = 5 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Ardmore (c. 24 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Duncan (c. 23 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Gainesville (c. 16 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Pauls Valley (c. 6 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Bowie (c. 5 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pauls Valley, Duncan, Bowie (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 11 km S of Wilson, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.4331° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.0626° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km S of Wilson, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-26 21:47:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-26 22:04:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 148 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 0.221 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 us1000h300 Id of event.
Event Code 1000h300 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000h300, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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