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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 19 km NNE of Enid, Oklahoma

Posted by admin on February 5, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.5536S, -97.7948WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Enid in Oklahoma. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/02/16 / 2016-02-05 16:06:24 / February 5, 2016 @ 4:06 pm. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:06:24 / 10:06 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20004y4k. Event ids that are associated: us20004y4k. Exact location of event, longitude -97.7948 West, latitude 36.5536 North, depth = 5 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Perry (c. 5 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ponca City, Perry, Blackwell (min 5000 pop).

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 nine, in the past 30 days fifty-seven and in the last 365 days seven hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 19 km NNE of Enid, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.7948° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5536° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km NNE of Enid, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-05 16:06:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-05 16:14:32 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 0.159 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us20004y4k Id of event.
Event Code 20004y4k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004y4k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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