Minor earthquake: M3.24 quake has struck near Buffalo in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.24 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Buffalo in Oklahoma. Global time and date of event 12/08/19 / 2019-08-12 04:01:45 / August 12, 2019 @ 4:01 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -99.36288452 West, latitude 36.97440338 North, depth = 5 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ok2019prte. Unique identifier: ok2019prte. The 3.24-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:01:45 / 10:01 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Woodward. Earthquake epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 28 km ENE of Buffalo, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.24 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-99.36288452° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.97440338° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	28km ENE of Buffalo, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-08-12 04:01:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-08-12 04:06:55	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	162	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	55	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.4720034003	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.8067612644 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	117.2701111	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	ok2019prte	Id of event.
Event Code	2019prte	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2019prte,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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