Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Helena in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Helena in Oklahoma. The temblor was picked up at 23:27:36 / 11:27 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 21/01/19 / 2019-01-21 05:27:36 / January 21, 2019 @ 5:27 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -98.138 West, latitude 36.391 North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us2000j6rp. Event ids that are associated: us2000j6rp.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Perry (c. 5 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Perry, Watonga, Enid (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and nine 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 20 km SE of Helena, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.138° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.391° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20km SE of Helena, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-01-21 05:27:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-01-21 05:57:14	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.17	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	200	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	0.169	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.66 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	54	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us2000j6rp	Id of event.
Event Code	2000j6rp	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000j6rp,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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