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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Cherokee in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.8158S, -98.4943WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma on Sunday. Unique identifier: us10002l6u. Ids that are associated to the event: us10002l6u. Exact location of event, longitude -98.4943 West, latitude 36.8158 North, depth = 7.855 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/06/15 / 2015-06-14 17:35:02 / June 14, 2015 @ 5:35 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.855 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 12:35:02 / 12:35 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 14 km WNW of Cherokee, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.4943° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.8158° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.855 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km WNW of Cherokee, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-06-14 17:35:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-11 20:07:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 129 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 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 131 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 us10002l6u Id of event.
Event Code 10002l6u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002l6u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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