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

Posted by admin on December 11, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.2817S, -96.9449WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Pawnee in Oklahoma on Thursday. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:00:34 / 6:00 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/12/15 / 2015-12-11 00:00:34 / December 11, 2015 @ 12:00 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Event id: us20004gak. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004gak. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -96.9449° West, 36.2817° North.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sand Springs, Blackwell, Guthrie (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Sand Springs (c. 18 900 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Cushing (c. 7 800 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days five hundred and ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 14 km WSW of Pawnee, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.9449° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.2817° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km WSW 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 2015-12-11 00:00:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-11 00:19:24 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 0.221 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 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 us20004gak Id of event.
Event Code 20004gak An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004gak, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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