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

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Pawnee in Oklahoma. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:49:31 / 5:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -96.8938 West, latitude 36.4412 North, depth = 4.75 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.75 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/09/16 / 2016-09-26 10:49:31 / September 26, 2016 @ 10:49 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us10006squ. Unique identifier: us10006squ.

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 Arkansas City, Blackwell, Cushing. The epicenter was 39 km (24 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), 53 km (33 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-96.8938° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.4412° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.75 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	2016-09-26 10:49:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-09-26 15:53:48	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	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	0.011	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.21 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	67	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	us10006squ	Id of event.
Event Code	10006squ	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006squ,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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