Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Guthrie in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Guthrie in Oklahoma on Saturday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006f6h. Id of event: us20006f6h. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -97.3572 West, latitude 35.9265 North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was reported at 06:47:59 / 6:47 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/07/16 / 2016-07-16 11:47:59 / July 16, 2016 @ 11:47 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 53 km (33 miles) from Oklahoma City (c. 580 000 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Edmond (c. 81 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Moore (c. 55 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Midwest City (c. 54 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Enid, El Reno, Mustang (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 8 km NE of Guthrie, Oklahoma.

Edmond El Reno Enid Guthrie Midwest City Moore Mustang Oklahoma Oklahoma City United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-97.3572° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	35.9265° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km NE of Guthrie, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-07-16 11:47:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-16 11:58:04	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	0.152	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.49 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	30	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	us20006f6h	Id of event.
Event Code	20006f6h	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20006f6h,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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