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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Yale in Oklahoma


Earthquake location 36.1767S, -96.8564WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Yale in Oklahoma on Saturday. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:52:50 / 6:52 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.03 km (1 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -96.8564 West, latitude 36.1767 North, depth = 2.03 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/11/16 / 2016-11-05 11:52:50 / November 5, 2016 @ 11:52 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us100074b0. Unique identifier: us100074b0.

Earthquake epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Stillwater (c. 45 700 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Ponca City (c. 25 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Sapulpa (c. 20 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Sand Springs (c. 18 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Guthrie (c. 10 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sapulpa, Sand Springs, Ponca City. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 15 km WNW of Yale, Oklahoma. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -96.8564° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1767° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km WNW of Yale, Oklahoma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-05 11:52:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-05 12:09:36 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 0.12 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us100074b0 Id of event.
Event Code 100074b0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100074b0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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