Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Pawnee in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Pawnee in Oklahoma. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/09/16 / 2016-09-22 09:27:43 / September 22, 2016 @ 9:27 am. Id of earthquake: us10006rkp. Event ids that are associated: us10006rkp. The temblor was detected at 04:27:43 / 4:27 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -96.9286 West, latitude 36.42 North, depth = 8.39 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.39 km (5 miles).

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guthrie, Arkansas City, Blackwell (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 36 km (22 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Arkansas City (c. 12 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Cushing (c. 7 800 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 14 km NW of Pawnee, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-96.9286° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.42° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.39 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14km 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	2016-09-22 09:27:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-09-22 09:58:17	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	0.012	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.41 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	38	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	us10006rkp	Id of event.
Event Code	10006rkp	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006rkp,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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