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Minor earthquake, 3.17 mag was detected near Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.84088516S, -98.07861328WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.17 (ml/mb) strikes Oklahoma kilometers (0 miles) from Oklahoma on Tuesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/07/19 / 2019-07-09 14:44:09 / July 9, 2019 @ 2:44 pm. The 3.17-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:44:09 / 2:44 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -98.07861328° West, latitude 35.84088516° North, depth = 1.967968106 km. Event id: ok2019nilg. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ok2019nilg. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.967968106 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Newcastle, Moore, Midwest City. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 66 km (41 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.17 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.07861328° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.84088516° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.967968106 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-09 14:44:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-09 14:45:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 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 automatic 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 155 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ok The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ok, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 60 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1349345446 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7583804985 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 31.49515057 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 ok2019nilg Id of event.
Event Code 2019nilg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ok2019nilg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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