Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Small World Earthquakes

Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Guthrie in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 35.9748S, -97.4096WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Guthrie in Oklahoma. Exact location, longitude -97.4096° West, latitude 35.9748° North, depth = 5 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 18:32:25 / 6:32 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/01/16 / 2016-01-30 00:32:25 / January 30, 2016 @ 12:32 am. Id of earthquake: us20004vq6. Event ids that are associated: us20004vq6.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 57 km (36 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mustang, Moore, El Reno (min 5000 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days five hundred and seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

Questions or comments?

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: 10 km N of Guthrie, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2016 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.4096° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.9748° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km N of Guthrie, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-30 00:32:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-30 00:39:13 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 3.4 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 0.181 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us20004vq6 Id of event.
Event Code 20004vq6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004vq6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply