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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 14 km SW of Cherokee, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.6571S, -98.4668WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma on Saturday. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:01:29 / 5:01 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7.786 km (5 miles). Global time and date of event 21/11/15 / 2015-11-21 11:01:29 / November 21, 2015 @ 11:01 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -98.4668 West, latitude 36.6571 North, depth = 7.786 km. Event id: us20004fpc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004fpc.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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: 14 km SW of Cherokee, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.4668° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6571° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.786 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km SW 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 2015-11-21 11:01:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-15 07:43:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 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 130 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 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us20004fpc Id of event.
Event Code 20004fpc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004fpc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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