Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Helena in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Helena in Oklahoma. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.193 km (4 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:09:01 / 5:09 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us10006pyk. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006pyk. Exact location of earthquake, -98.05° West, 36.6139° North, depth 6.193 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/09/16 / 2016-09-15 22:09:01 / September 15, 2016 @ 10:09 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Perry, Blackwell, Enid. Earthquake epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Enid (c. 49 400 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Blackwell (c. 7 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Perry (c. 5 100 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 21 km ENE of Helena, 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	-98.05° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.6139° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.193 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21km ENE of Helena, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-09-15 22:09:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-01 22:31:55	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		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	46	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	us10006pyk	Id of event.
Event Code	10006pyk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006pyk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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