Minor earthquake 3.27 mag, 5 km NW of Ames, Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.27 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Ames in Oklahoma. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000bnvw, ok2020sfya. Unique identifier: ok2020sfya. Exact location of event, depth 2.170128345 km, -98.22536469° West, 36.28569794° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/09/20 / 2020-09-16 09:27:34 / September 16, 2020 @ 9:27 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.170128345 km (1 miles). The temblor was detected at 09:27:34 / 9:27 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Watonga, Enid (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 33 km (21 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop).

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

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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: 5 km NW of Ames, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.27 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.22536469° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.28569794° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.170128345 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 km NW of Ames, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-09-16 09:27:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-09-16 09:34:10	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	165	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	,us,ok,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	99	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2818075418	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6649148921 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	44.12520313	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	ok2020sfya	Id of event.
Event Code	2020sfya	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000bnvw,ok2020sfya,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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