Minor earthquake, 3.31 mag has occurred near Watonga in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.31 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Watonga in Oklahoma on Saturday. Exact location of event, depth 1.944586277 km, -98.52626801° West, 35.88961792° North. Event id: ok2019soic. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ok2019soic. The epicenter was at a depth of 1.944586277 km (1 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/09/19 / 2019-09-21 23:38:08 / September 21, 2019 @ 11:38 pm. The temblor was detected at 17:38:08 / 5:38 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Yukon (c. 22 700 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from El Reno (c. 16 700 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Weatherford (c. 10 800 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Clinton (c. 9 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yukon, Enid, Piedmont (min 5000 pop).

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 fourty-one 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 11 km WNW of Watonga, Oklahoma.

Clinton El Reno Enid Oklahoma Piedmont United States Watonga Weatherford Yukon

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.31 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.52626801° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.88961792° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.944586277 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km WNW of Watonga, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-09-21 23:38:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-09-21 23:39:29	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	169	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	0.2020896971	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6813971723 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	39.3575592	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	ok2019soic	Id of event.
Event Code	2019soic	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2019soic,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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