Minor earthquake, 3.69 mag has occurred near Blanchard in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.69 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Blanchard in Oklahoma. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/05/20 / 2020-05-02 00:50:10 / May 2, 2020 @ 12:50 am. Event id: ok2020ioza. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ok2020ioza. The temblor was reported at 18:50:10 / 6:50 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -97.78892517° West, 35.0936203° North, depth 0.07080531865 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 0.07080531865 km (0 miles).

The epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Lawton (c. 96 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shawnee, Tecumseh, Lawton (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 twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 12 km WSW of Blanchard, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.69 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.78892517° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.0936203° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.07080531865 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km WSW of Blanchard, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-05-02 00:50:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-02 00:55:00	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	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	210	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	103	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.09432180226	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.8025567685 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	17.8097229	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	ok2020ioza	Id of event.
Event Code	2020ioza	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2020ioza,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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