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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Prague in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on January 19, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 35.4946S, -96.7324WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Prague in Oklahoma on Tuesday. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -96.7324° West, 35.4946° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004fkh. Id of event: us10004fkh. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/01/16 / 2016-01-19 12:41:08 / January 19, 2016 @ 12:41 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 06:41:08 / 6:41 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guthrie, Stillwater, The Village (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 4 km WNW of Prague, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.7324° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.4946° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km WNW of Prague, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-19 12:41:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-19 13:05:20 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 2.7 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 0.039 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us10004fkh Id of event.
Event Code 10004fkh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004fkh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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