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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 15 km SE of Cherokee, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.6753S, -98.2154WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: us100041vt. Unique identifier: us100041vt. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.495 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 28/11/15 / 2015-11-28 13:05:35 / November 28, 2015 @ 1:05 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:05:35 / 7:05 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.2154 West, latitude 36.6753 North, depth = 5.495 km.

Epicenter of the event was 43 km (27 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty, in the last 10 days fifty-five, in the past 30 days ninety and in the last 365 days six hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 15 km SE of Cherokee, Oklahoma. This data 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 -98.2154° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6753° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.495 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km SE 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 2015-11-28 13:05:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-27 20:09:18 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 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 us100041vt Id of event.
Event Code 100041vt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100041vt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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