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Minor earthquake: M3.57 quake has struck near Waukomis in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.30537415S, -98.15409851WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.57 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Waukomis in Oklahoma on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.245992661 km (1 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ok2020assg. Id of event: ok2020assg. The 3.57-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:40:18 / 11:40 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.15409851 West, latitude 36.30537415 North, depth = 2.245992661 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/01/20 / 2020-01-11 05:40:18 / January 11, 2020 @ 5:40 am.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 27 km (17 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Piedmont (c. 5 700 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Perry (c. 5 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Piedmont, Guthrie, Perry.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 23 km W of Waukomis, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.57 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.15409851° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.30537415° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.245992661 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km W of Waukomis, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-11 05:40:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-11 05:41:47 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 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 74 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2419939488 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5297083334 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51.24893475 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 ok2020assg Id of event.
Event Code 2020assg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ok2020assg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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