Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag has occurred near Stonewall in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Stonewall in Oklahoma on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.955037117 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: ok2024plct. Unique identifier: ok2024plct. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/08/24 / 2024-08-07 12:55:37 / August 7, 2024 @ 12:55 pm. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:55:37 / 12:55 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -96.52384186 West, latitude 34.74365234 North, depth = 7.955037117 km.

Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Shawnee (c. 29 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from McAlester (c. 18 400 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Ada (c. 16 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Seminole (c. 7 500 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Tecumseh (c. 6 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Pauls Valley (c. 6 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Purcell, Shawnee, McAlester (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km N of Stonewall, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-96.52384186° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	34.74365234° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.955037117 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10 km N of Stonewall, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-08-07 12:55:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-07 13:02:55	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	188	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	69	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1215238497	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.5407298989 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	41.87039185	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	ok2024plct	Id of event.
Event Code	2024plct	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2024plct,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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