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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Oklahoma

Posted by admin on July 31, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.5371S, -97.5706WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, Oklahoma kilometers (0 miles) from Oklahoma. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/07/16 / 2016-07-02 13:53:12 / July 2, 2016 @ 1:53 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -97.5706° West, latitude 36.5371° North, depth = 9.052 km. Event id: us10005zgx. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005zgx. The epicenter was at a depth of 9.052 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 13:53:12 / 1:53 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby 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 Arkansas City, Guthrie, Stillwater. The epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -97.5706° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.5371° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.052 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-02 13:53:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-31 16:25:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 us10005zgx Id of event.
Event Code 10005zgx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005zgx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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