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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Edmond in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.737S, -97.564WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Edmond in Oklahoma on Thursday. Id of earthquake: us1000j91d. Event ids that are associated: us1000j91d. The temblor was reported at 18:15:23 / 6:15 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.564 West, latitude 35.737 North, depth = 9.97 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/03/19 / 2019-03-01 00:15:23 / March 1, 2019 @ 12:15 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.97 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 30 km (19 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Enid, Tecumseh, Watonga (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 12 km NW of Edmond, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.564° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.737° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km NW of Edmond, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-01 00:15:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-01 00:46:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 76 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 177 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 0.106 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 22 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 us1000j91d Id of event.
Event Code 1000j91d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000j91d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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