Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Pawnee in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Pawnee in Oklahoma. The epicenter was at a depth of 4.43 km (3 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -96.8914 West, latitude 36.4114 North, depth = 4.43 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/09/16 / 2016-09-07 11:17:39 / September 7, 2016 @ 11:17 am. The temblor was detected at 06:17:39 / 6:17 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10006mnc. Unique identifier: us10006mnc.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sand Springs, Guthrie, Arkansas City (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Sand Springs (c. 18 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. 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: 11 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-96.8914° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4114° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.43 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km NW 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	2016-09-07 11:17:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-09-07 11:59:27	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	0.019	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	86	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	us10006mnc	Id of event.
Event Code	10006mnc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006mnc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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