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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Pawnee in Oklahoma

Posted by admin on August 18, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.4441S, -96.8855WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Pawnee in Oklahoma. Unique identifier: us1000689i. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000689i. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.12 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 21:21:16 / 9:21 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -96.8855° West, 36.4441° North, depth 8.12 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/07/16 / 2016-07-29 02:21:16 / July 29, 2016 @ 2:21 am.

Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Cushing (c. 7 800 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arkansas City, Blackwell, Cushing.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 13 km NNW of Pawnee, Oklahoma.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.8855° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.4441° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km NNW of Pawnee, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-29 02:21:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-17 23:22:57 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us1000689i Id of event.
Event Code 1000689i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000689i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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