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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Pawnee in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.3162S, -96.9662WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Pawnee in Oklahoma. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.477 km (5 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:35:11 / 3:35 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us10006k5w. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006k5w. Exact location of earthquake, -96.9662° West, 36.3162° North, depth 8.477 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/09/16 / 2016-09-03 20:35:11 / September 3, 2016 @ 8:35 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Cushing (c. 7 800 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guthrie, Blackwell, Ponca City.

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 14 km W of Pawnee, Oklahoma.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.9662° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.3162° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.477 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km W 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 2016-09-03 20:35:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-01 01:33:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 13 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 126 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 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us10006k5w Id of event.
Event Code 10006k5w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006k5w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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