Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Cherokee in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. Global time and date of event 23/12/15 / 2015-12-23 00:45:32 / December 23, 2015 @ 12:45 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us100048y2. Event ids that are associated: us100048y2. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:45:32 / 6:45 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.96 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -98.0689° West, 36.7589° North, depth 4.96 km.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). 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). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Blackwell, Enid (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days five hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 25 km E of Cherokee, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.0689° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.7589° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.96 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	2015-12-23 00:45:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-23 00:58:53	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	0.101	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	39	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	us100048y2	Id of event.
Event Code	100048y2	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100048y2,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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