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

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Enid in Oklahoma on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.8302 West, latitude 36.6005 North, depth = 6.245 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/01/16 / 2016-01-22 14:17:39 / January 22, 2016 @ 2:17 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.245 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 08:17:39 / 8:17 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us10004gds. Event ids that are associated: us10004gds.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ponca City, Perry, Blackwell. Epicenter of the earthquake was 23 km (14 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Perry (c. 5 100 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. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days thirty-one, in the past 30 days eighty-nine and in the last 365 days seven hundred and thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 23 km N of Enid, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.8302° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.6005° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.245 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	23km N 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	2016-01-22 14:17:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-02-05 09:25:22	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	81	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	us10004gds	Id of event.
Event Code	10004gds	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004gds,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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