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Minor earthquake, 3.05 mag was detected near Blackwell in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.8811264S, -97.42733002WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.05 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Blackwell in Oklahoma on Sunday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -97.42733002° West, 36.8811264° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/07/19 / 2019-07-15 03:41:08 / July 15, 2019 @ 3:41 am. All ids that are associated to the event: ok2019nsok. Unique identifier: ok2019nsok. The temblor was picked up at 21:41:08 / 9:41 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Haysville, Derby, Mulvane. Event epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 15 km WNW of Blackwell, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.05 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.42733002° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.8811264° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km WNW of Blackwell, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-15 03:41:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-15 03:44:26 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 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 143 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 66 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1375845373 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7513642191 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118.0639877 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 ok2019nsok Id of event.
Event Code 2019nsok An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ok2019nsok, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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