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Minor earthquake, 3.57 mag strikes near Okeene in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.29066667S, -98.18766667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.57 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Okeene in Oklahoma. The temblor was picked up at 15:54:49 / 3:54 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -98.18766667° West, 36.29066667° North, depth 6.01 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/11/19 / 2019-11-22 21:54:49 / November 22, 2019 @ 9:54 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.01 km (4 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ok2019wxlw. Unique identifier: ok2019wxlw.

Event epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Piedmont (c. 5 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Perry (c. 5 100 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guthrie, Piedmont, Perry.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 22 km NNE of Okeene, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.57 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.18766667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.29066667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km NNE of Okeene, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-22 21:54:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-22 22:56:28 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 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 196 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 39 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0449911712 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 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 ok2019wxlw Id of event.
Event Code 2019wxlw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ok2019wxlw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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