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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Drumright in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.8775S, -96.6768WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Drumright in Oklahoma. Exact location of earthquake, -96.6768° West, 35.8775° North, depth 8.9 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/12/15 / 2015-12-06 18:14:19 / December 6, 2015 @ 6:14 pm. Unique identifier: us100044gu. Ids that are associated to the event: us100044gu. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.9 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 12:14:19 / 12:14 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Edmond, Tecumseh, Seminole (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 69 km (43 miles) from Tulsa (c. 391 900 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Shawnee (c. 29 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Bixby (c. 20 900 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km SSW of Drumright, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.6768° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.8775° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km SSW of Drumright, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-06 18:14:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-06 21:52:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 0.1 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 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 mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us100044gu Id of event.
Event Code 100044gu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100044gu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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