Minor earthquake, 3.34 mag has occurred near Waynoka in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.34 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Waynoka in Oklahoma. Unique identifier: ok2024opfd. Ids that are associated to the event: ok2024opfd. The 3.34-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:07:41 / 1:07 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -98.80197144° West, 36.48685455° North, depth 2.747302532 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.747302532 km (2 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/07/24 / 2024-07-26 13:07:41 / July 26, 2024 @ 1:07 pm.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 53 km (33 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Watonga, Woodward (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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: 12 km SSE of Waynoka, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.34 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.80197144° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.48685455° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.747302532 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12 km SSE of Waynoka, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-07-26 13:07:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-26 13:14:53	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	172	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	79	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03697881475	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6777684043 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	77.12836456	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	ok2024opfd	Id of event.
Event Code	2024opfd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2024opfd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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