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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Cherokee in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on June 1, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.8607S, -98.1544WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. The epicenter was at a depth of 7.022 km (4 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -98.1544 West, latitude 36.8607 North, depth = 7.022 km. The temblor was reported at 11:07:02 / 11:07 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/05/16 / 2016-05-09 16:07:02 / May 9, 2016 @ 4:07 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005g2l. Id of event: us10005g2l.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Enid (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days thirty-three and in the last 365 days four hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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 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: 21 km ENE of Cherokee, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.1544° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.8607° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.022 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km ENE 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 2016-05-09 16:07:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-01 18:53:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us10005g2l Id of event.
Event Code 10005g2l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005g2l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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