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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 14 km ESE of Enid, Oklahoma

Posted by admin on March 14, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.3615S, -97.7199WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Enid in Oklahoma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.09 km (1 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/03/16 / 2016-03-14 09:42:21 / March 14, 2016 @ 9:42 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us10004xck. Unique identifier: us10004xck. Exact location of earthquake, -97.7199° West, 36.3615° North, depth 2.09 km. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:42:21 / 4:42 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ponca City, Stillwater, Blackwell. Earthquake epicenter was 15 km (9 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop).

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

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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. 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: 14 km ESE of Enid, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.7199° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.3615° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km ESE 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 2016-03-14 09:42:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-14 10:25:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 0.229 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 63 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 us10004xck Id of event.
Event Code 10004xck An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004xck, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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