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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Stillwater in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on November 7, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.123S, -97.0609WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Stillwater in Oklahoma. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003vcp. Id of event: us10003vcp. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.844 km (4 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.0609 West, latitude 36.123 North, depth = 6.844 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/11/15 / 2015-11-06 20:20:31 / November 6, 2015 @ 8:20 pm. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:20:31 / 2:20 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was The Village, Choctaw, Harrah (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 1 km (1 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Choctaw (c. 11 100 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days fourty-three and in the last 365 days five hundred and eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 0 km NNW of Stillwater, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.0609° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.123° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.844 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 0km NNW of Stillwater, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-06 20:20:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-07 17:56:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 12 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 133 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 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us10003vcp Id of event.
Event Code 10003vcp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003vcp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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