Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Taloga in Oklahoma

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Taloga in Oklahoma. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.9221 West, latitude 36.2034 North, depth = 6.536 km. The temblor was reported at 22:30:14 / 10:30 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 6.536 km (4 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/10/16 / 2016-10-10 03:30:14 / October 10, 2016 @ 3:30 am. Event id: us20007d0x. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007d0x.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Clinton, Watonga, Woodward. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 49 km (31 miles) from Woodward (c. 12 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Clinton (c. 9 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Watonga (c. 5 100 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 18 km NNE of Taloga, Oklahoma.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-98.9221° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	36.2034° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.536 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18km NNE of Taloga, Oklahoma	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-10-10 03:30:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-12 03:54:30	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	0.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	90	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	us20007d0x	Id of event.
Event Code	20007d0x	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20007d0x,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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