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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Waukomis in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on July 21, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.2829S, -97.6423WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Waukomis in Oklahoma. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/07/15 / 2015-07-21 13:10:53 / July 21, 2015 @ 1:10 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002yvv. Id of event: us20002yvv. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The temblor was detected at 08:10:53 / 8:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -97.6423 West, latitude 36.2829 North, depth = 5 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Piedmont, Edmond, Ponca City. Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (44 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days sixty-one and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 22 km E of Waukomis, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.6423° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2829° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km E of Waukomis, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-21 13:10:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-21 13:30:51 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 0.353 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us20002yvv Id of event.
Event Code 20002yvv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002yvv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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