Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 33 km S of Alva, Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Alva in Oklahoma. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:49:37 / 5:49 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 7.071 km (4 miles). Exact location of event, depth 7.071 km, -98.7179° West, 36.5063° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/01/16 / 2016-01-30 11:49:37 / January 30, 2016 @ 11:49 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us20004w12. Ids that are associated to the event: us20004w12.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Enid, Woodward.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days twenty-seven, in the past 30 days sixty-three and in the last 365 days four hundred and sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 33 km S of Alva, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.7179° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.5063° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7.071 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33km S of Alva, 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 11:49:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-02-15 08:44:04	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	0.68 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	119	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	us20004w12	Id of event.
Event Code	20004w12	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20004w12,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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