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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 7 km SE of Cherokee, Oklahoma

Posted by admin on February 12, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.7094S, -98.2913WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. Exact location of event, depth 6.96 km, -98.2913° West, 36.7094° North. Event id: us10004fv9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004fv9. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:29:02 / 11:29 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/01/16 / 2016-01-20 17:29:02 / January 20, 2016 @ 5:29 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.96 km (4 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 51 km (32 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Enid. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days thirty-one, in the past 30 days sixty-seven and in the last 365 days five hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 7 km SE of Cherokee, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.2913° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7094° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km 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 2016-01-20 17:29:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-11 23:58:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 131 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 0.072 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 us10004fv9 Id of event.
Event Code 10004fv9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004fv9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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