Minor earthquake, 3.56 mag has occurred near Jefferson in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.56 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Jefferson in Oklahoma. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/11/24 / 2024-11-24 08:22:33 / November 24, 2024 @ 8:22 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.154791355 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ok2024xbxp. Id of event: ok2024xbxp. The temblor was picked up at 08:22:33 / 8:22 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 3.154791355 km, -97.68466949° West, 36.69502258° North.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Arkansas City, Wellington, Perry. Event epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Wellington (c. 8 200 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Perry (c. 5 100 pop).

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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 9 km ESE of Jefferson, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.56 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.68466949° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.69502258° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.154791355 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km ESE of Jefferson, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-11-24 08:22:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-24 08:23:49	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	195	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	71	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2100412846	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2675210166 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	40.39710808	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	ok2024xbxp	Id of event.
Event Code	2024xbxp	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ok2024xbxp,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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