Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Luther in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Luther in Oklahoma. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.483 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:35:44 / 1:35 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10005c02. Ids that are associated to the event: us10005c02. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/04/16 / 2016-04-27 18:35:44 / April 27, 2016 @ 6:35 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.1609 West, latitude 35.7266 North, depth = 5.483 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tuttle, El Reno, Seminole. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 43 km (27 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Norman (c. 110 900 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km NNE of Luther, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Edmond El Reno Luther Midwest City Moore Norman Oklahoma Oklahoma City Seminole Tuttle United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.1609° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.7266° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.483 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km NNE of Luther, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-04-27 18:35:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-25 22:25:07	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		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.5 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	50	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	us10005c02	Id of event.
Event Code	10005c02	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10005c02,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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