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Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 24 km E of Cherokee, Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.7577S, -98.0795WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Cherokee in Oklahoma. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.27 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 05/08/16 / 2016-08-05 06:59:52 / August 5, 2016 @ 6:59 am UTC/GMT. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:59:52 / 1:59 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -98.0795° West, 36.7577° North, depth 8.27 km. Unique identifier: us10006a8y. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006a8y.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Blackwell, Enid. The epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 24 km E of Cherokee, Oklahoma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -98.0795° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7577° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km E 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 2016-08-05 06:59:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-05 07:14:45 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 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 0.114 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 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 mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10006a8y Id of event.
Event Code 10006a8y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006a8y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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