Minor earthquake, 3.45 mag has occurred near Lindsay in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.45 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Lindsay in Oklahoma. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/05/20 / 2020-05-17 11:10:49 / May 17, 2020 @ 11:10 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.9549701214 km (1 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -97.70070648 West, latitude 34.97470474 North, depth = 0.9549701214 km. The temblor was detected at 05:10:49 / 5:10 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ok2020jrdy. Event ids that are associated: ok2020jrdy.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Shawnee, Edmond, Tecumseh (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 57 km (36 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Lawton (c. 96 900 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop).

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

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 17 km NNW of Lindsay, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.45 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.70070648° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.97470474° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.9549701214 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km NNW of Lindsay, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-05-17 11:10:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-17 11:14:02	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	183	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	89	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1025476977	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.782586455 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	26.16220093	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	ok2020jrdy	Id of event.
Event Code	2020jrdy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2020jrdy,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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