Minor earthquake, 3.38 mag has occurred near Blackwell in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.38 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Blackwell in Oklahoma. The temblor was reported at 21:59:36 / 9:59 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -97.42098999° West, latitude 36.88393402° North, depth = 0.4973643124 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.4973643124 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ok2020ickt. Id of event: ok2020ickt. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/04/20 / 2020-04-25 03:59:36 / April 25, 2020 @ 3:59 am.

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 Haysville, Derby, Enid. Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Derby (c. 22 200 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Winfield (c. 12 300 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 15 km NW of Blackwell, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.38 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.42098999° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.88393402° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.4973643124 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km NW 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	2020-04-25 03:59:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-25 04:01:13	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	176	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	64	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1365167052	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6253022188 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	144.9758682	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	ok2020ickt	Id of event.
Event Code	2020ickt	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2020ickt,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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