Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Sparks in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Sparks in Oklahoma on Friday. Unique identifier: us7000nuvl. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nuvl. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:14:25 / 6:14 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -96.7448° West, latitude 35.5624° North, depth = 5 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/11/24 / 2024-11-29 06:14:25 / November 29, 2024 @ 6:14 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Glenpool, Warr Acres, Noble (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 71 km (44 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 one and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

Did you feel anything?

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: 8 km SE of Sparks, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-96.7448° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.5624° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8 km SE of Sparks, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-11-29 06:14:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-29 06:21:11	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	reviewed	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	148	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	44	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.096	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.26 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	29	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb_lg	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000nuvl	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nuvl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nuvl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Sparks in Oklahoma

Did you feel anything?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information