Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Waukomis in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Waukomis in Oklahoma. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:01:16 / 7:01 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us100035kq. Ids that are associated to the event: us100035kq. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.17 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.152 West, latitude 36.3025 North, depth = 3.17 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/08/15 / 2015-08-28 00:01:16 / August 28, 2015 @ 12:01 am.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Watonga, Enid (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 27 km (17 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.152° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.3025° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.17 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	22km W 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	2015-08-28 00:01:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-28 00:13:17	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	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	0.243	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.73 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	103	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	us100035kq	Id of event.
Event Code	100035kq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100035kq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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