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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Pawnee in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on October 2, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.3338S, -96.8077WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Pawnee in Oklahoma on Friday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/10/15 / 2015-10-02 06:25:13 / October 2, 2015 @ 6:25 am. Exact location of earthquake, -96.8077° West, 36.3338° North, depth 3.42 km. Unique identifier: us10003jpt. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003jpt. The temblor was reported at 01:25:13 / 1:25 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 3.42 km (2 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Sapulpa (c. 20 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Sand Springs (c. 18 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tulsa, Guthrie, Sapulpa (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days five hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 0 km SW of Pawnee, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.8077° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.3338° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 0km SW of Pawnee, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-10-02 06:25:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-02 06:32:39 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 0.181 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us10003jpt Id of event.
Event Code 10003jpt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003jpt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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