Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Cherokee in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma on Thursday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.104 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 23:35:37 / 11:35 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/11/15 / 2015-11-06 05:35:37 / November 6, 2015 @ 5:35 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us10003v4d. Unique identifier: us10003v4d. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.0678 West, latitude 36.7619 North, depth = 5.104 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Blackwell, Enid. Epicenter of the earthquake was 44 km (27 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-six, in the last 10 days sixty-nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and two and in the last 365 days six hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 25 km E of Cherokee, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.0678° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.7619° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.104 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25km E 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	2015-11-06 05:35:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-02 07:10:20	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	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	0.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	47	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	us10003v4d	Id of event.
Event Code	10003v4d	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10003v4d,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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