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Minor earthquake, 3.03 mag was detected near Ratliff City in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 34.39475632S, -97.41446686WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.03 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Ratliff City in Oklahoma on Tuesday. Exact location of event, longitude -97.41446686 West, latitude 34.39475632 North, depth = 0.5987358689 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/03/21 / 2021-03-02 12:33:56 / March 2, 2021 @ 12:33 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.5987358689 km (0 miles). The 3.03-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:33:56 / 12:33 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: ok2021egpb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ok2021egpb.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Purcell, Duncan, Pauls Valley (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Ardmore (c. 24 300 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Duncan (c. 23 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Pauls Valley (c. 6 200 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Purcell (c. 5 900 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Lone Grove (c. 5 100 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 10 km SE of Ratliff City, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.03 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.41446686° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 34.39475632° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.5987358689 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10 km SE of Ratliff City, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-03-02 12:33:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-03-02 12:38:50 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 141 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 76 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05784321204 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8831314877 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75.32595062 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 ok2021egpb Id of event.
Event Code 2021egpb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ok2021egpb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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