Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Stroud in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Stroud in Oklahoma on Thursday. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:38:05 / 10:38 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 4.78 km, -96.6872° West, 35.8622° North. Global time and date of event 24/01/19 / 2019-01-24 16:38:05 / January 24, 2019 @ 4:38 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.78 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us2000j8ct. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000j8ct.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Broken Arrow, Skiatook, Del City (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 70 km (44 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Broken Arrow (c. 98 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Shawnee (c. 29 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each 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 three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 12 km NNW of Stroud, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-96.6872° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.8622° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.78 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km NNW of Stroud, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-01-24 16:38:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-01-24 17:48:17	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.96	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	188	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		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.03 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	79	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	us2000j8ct	Id of event.
Event Code	2000j8ct	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000j8ct,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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