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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Oklahoma

Posted by admin on July 8, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.2927S, -97.5297WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, Oklahoma kilometers (0 miles) from Oklahoma. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.177 km (4 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/06/15 / 2015-06-12 03:11:25 / June 12, 2015 @ 3:11 am. Exact location of event, depth 6.177 km, -97.5297° West, 36.2927° North. The temblor was picked up at 03:11:25 / 3:11 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us20002qg6. Ids that are associated to the event: us20002qg6.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cushing, Piedmont, Edmond (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 71 km (44 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-one, in the last 10 days eighty-nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-five and in the last 365 days seven hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5297° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2927° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.177 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-06-12 03:11:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-08 23:10:58 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 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 121 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 us20002qg6 Id of event.
Event Code 20002qg6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002qg6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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